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24-05-2025
- Climate
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This is why you should brine chicken before you grill it Memorial Day weekend
We've all had something from the grill that was overcooked, dry and tasteless. Chicken, skin-on or skinless, breast, thigh or leg, are easy targets. If you've never tried brining, it's a way to overcome this. And, did we mention that it's super easy? When you brine meats, poultry or seafood, you're adding moisture to ensure they don't overcook, especially when they're being grilled or roasted. More: Brining helps meat stay moist during grilling A basic formula for a brining solution is to mix 1 cup of kosher salt with 1 gallon of water. If you substitute regular table salt, cut it by half and use one-half cup. If you like, replace some of the water with juice or wine and some of the salt with white or brown sugar. You can also toss in some herb sprigs, peppercorns, garlic and even fruit. Brining is extremely beneficial to leaner cuts of meat and poultry — think boneless skinless chicken breast and boneless pork loin chops. When you grill these pieces, they tend to dry out quickly. If you brine beforehand, it almost guarantees that the results will be moist, flavorful and tender. Brining is great for chicken pieces or a whole chicken with skin on and bone in. Shrimp plump up when soaked in a brine. If chicken is on the menu this Memorial Day, try this easy, foolproof recipe for barbecued chicken with a brining option. Serves: 4 / Preparation time: 20 minutes / Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes (plus brining time) RUB2 teaspoons paprika 2 teaspoons kosher salt ½ teaspoon granulated garlic ½ teaspoon ground black pepper 4 whole chicken legs, each 10 to 12 ounces, cut into thighs and drumsticks or use all thighs SAUCE1 cup ketchup ¼ cup cider vinegar 1 tablespoon packed light brown sugar 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 2 teaspoons hot pepper sauce 2 large handfuls hickory or favorite wood chips, soaked in water for at least 30 minutes More: Oak Park has been establishing its culinary identity in recent years: 12 places to eat If desired, brine the chicken pieces in a 1 gallon of water mixed with ½ cup kosher salt and ½ cup sugar for about 4 hours in the refrigerator. After 4 hours, remove chicken from brine and rinse well and pat skin dry with paper towels before applying the rub. In a small bowl, mix the rub ingredients. Season the chicken thighs and drumsticks all over with the rub. Prepare the grill for direct and indirect cooking over medium heat, 350 to 400 degrees. More: I grocery shop almost exclusively at Eastern Market. Here's what to buy, where to find it In a medium saucepan, combine the sauce ingredients. Bring to a simmer over medium heat and cook until slightly thickened, 6 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally. Brush the cooking grates clean. Cook the chicken, skin side down first, over direct medium heat, with the lid closed as much as possible, until golden brown, 6 to 10 minutes, turning occasionally. Move the chicken over indirect medium heat. Drain the wood chips and add them to the smoker box of a gas grill, following manufacturer's instructions. Place the smoker box over direct heat. Close the lid and continue cooking until the juices run clear and the meat is opaque all the way to the bone, about 35 minutes, basting with the sauce and turning several times during the last 20 minutes of cooking time. Remove from the grill and let rest for 3 to 5 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature with any remaining sauce on the side. Adapted from "Weber's Smoke: A Guide to Smoke Cooking for Everyone and Any Grill" by Jamie Purviance (Sunset, $21.95). Tested by Susan Selasky in the Free Press Test Kitchen. Analysis per 2 pieces with skin and sauce. 607 calories (47% from fat), 31 grams fat (9 grams sat. fat), 20 grams carbohydrates, 61 grams protein, 1,516 mg sodium, 210 mg cholesterol, 1 gram fiber. Contact Detroit Free Press food and restaurant writer Susan Selasky and send food and restaurant news and tips to: sselasky@ Follow @SusanMariecooks on Twitter. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Brine chicken before grilling for Memorial Day: Recipe
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Flower Day returns to Detroit Sunday as thousands fill the Eastern Market
Spring was in bloom Sunday as shoppers flocked to Detroit's Eastern Market to get the best deals on hibiscus, petunias, tulips and daisies as the annual Flower Day returned to the Motor City. The market, filled with the aroma of food from dozens of vendors, drew thousands of customers as they pulled wagons filled with children, flowers and plants to find the next best deal. "Our most popular flower today has been the geranium (Crane's-bill), it seems like that has been going the fastest," said Missy Christiansen of DC Farms & Greenhouse, a flower shop based out of Columbus Township in St. Clair County. As shoppers lined up to look at the bright colorful flowers, elephant ears, ice-cold lemonade, hot dogs and french fries, among other food items, were available for purchase from vendors. Temperatures stayed around 65 degrees for most of the day. "It's a lot of fun being down here. We have about 13 stalls, so we're all throughout the market", said Christiansen. Additionally, vendors selling jewelry, clothing, purses, lanyards and more filled the crosswalk outside of each shed. For metro Detroiters who missed Flower Day, there are still two Flower Tuesdays left this month, May 20th and 27th. To learn more, visit Species of flowers in Michigan counties range from 1300-1700, according to the University of Michigan. Variables, including climate and habitat diversity, influence the the type of flower that grows in individual counties. Michigan's native wildflowers include ironweed, several varieties of aster, wild columbine, swamp milkweed and marsh blazing star, Visit Detroit says. The sweet crabapple was designated as the state flower in 1987, according to the state's website. Sponsors said the flower, native to Michigan was 'one of the most fragrant and beautiful flowered species of apple.' A member of the rose family, the crabapple tree ranges from 15 to 30 feet tall when fully grown. Winter buds have reddish scales and when fully bloomed in the summer, the tree produces smooth light pink and white petals. The tree also produces apples that turn yellow when ripened, according to the Glen Arboretum. Iris lacustris, also known as the dwarf lake iris was designated as the state flower in 1998, the state website says. Also native to Michigan, the endangered flower grows alongside the northern shores of Lake Michigan and Huron. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, botanist Thomas Nuttall discovered Dwarf lake iris in 1810 on Mackinac Island. Most dwarf lake iris flowers are blue, but some vary from pale to dark lilac shades. Jalen Williams is a trending reporter at the Detroit Free Press. Contact him at jawilliams1@ This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Flower Day in Detroit fills the Eastern Market with colors, carnival food smell.
Axios
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit: May 16-18
🌸 Flower Day — Eastern Market's vibrant annual tradition — is Sunday from 7am-5pm, with flower growers and vendors from all over the Midwest. Free to attend. 🦸 Motor City Comic Con returns this weekend to Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi to celebrate all things comics, pop culture and entertainment. Celebrities slated to appear include Jeremy Renner and Leslie David Baker of "The Office." Friday-Sunday; daily passes start at $35 for adults and $5 for children. 🎤 Post Malone's Big Ass Stadium Tour, with Jelly Roll, is Sunday at 6:30pm at Ford Field. Available tickets start at $77. 🤠 Toy Story, the 1995 animated classic, is showing at the Redford Theatre on Saturday at 1pm. 🎮 Drink and drive (legally!) at Detroit Shipping Company's Mario Kart game night on Friday from 6-10pm. Tickets, $5. 🎭 The Central Park Five, an operatic adaptation of the true story, is playing Friday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2:30pm at the Detroit Opera House. Tickets start at $30. 💕 Anthony Hamilton, Robin Thicke and Vivian Green will be performing at the Fox Theatre on Sunday at 7pm.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Business
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Mike Duggan can't claim sole credit for Detroit's amazing recovery
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan gave a masterful presentation Tuesday evening that I heard as much as an opening speech in his run for governor as his final State of the City address. Speaking at the new Hudson's Detroit building, Duggan touted the city's fiscal stability during his three terms, the city's new investment-grade credit rating, thousands of new housing units built and even a slight rise in Detroit's population after decades of decline. A lot to celebrate, for sure. And Duggan can justly claim credit for much of it. But what Duggan and many others miss is how deep the roots of Detroit's recovery go. Key building blocks of Detroit's comeback were in place at least a decade before Duggan took office in 2014. And before his time in office recedes into the history books, it's worth taking another look at exactly how this amazing city came back from the dead. More from John Gallagher: I'm a historic preservationist, but these RenCen towers have to go Certainly, the city's fiscal stability during Duggan's term owes much to Detroit's spin through Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy in 2013-14. The Grand Bargain ― a financial agreement between philanthropy, the state and the Detroit Institute of Arts to secure the museum's collection and protect retirees' pensions in the bankruptcy process ― wiped some $7 billion of debt off the city's books, giving Detroit what former federal Judge Gerald Rosen, who served as mediator in the case, called the cleanest balance sheet of any city in America. Twelve years of balanced city budgets under Duggan flowed from that settlement. Then, too, the role of philanthropic foundations that pumped more than $300 million into the Grand Bargain followed years of an activist approach by philanthropy to help revive Detroit. The Kresge Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Hudson's Webber and other philanthropies, flush with legacy wealth from Detroit's glory years, were already bankrolling the RiverWalk, the revival of Eastern Market, and a host of other social, artistic and neighborhood programs before Detroiters elected Duggan. Indeed, it's fair to say that philanthropic dollars, which I sometimes think of as money from heaven, has underwritten a vast amount of Detroit's revival. And speaking of the RiverWalk and Eastern Market, those were just two municipal operations languishing under direct city control that were handed off during Detroit's woeful pre-bankruptcy years to non-profit conservancies and public authorities. A city government too broken and dysfunctional to create the RiverWalk or revive the market spun those off to a whole series of newly created non-profit entities, where they thrived. Nor were they alone. Campus Martius Park, the city's convention center ― now called Huntington Place ― the city's workforce development agency, the DIA and Detroit Historical Museum ― all these and others were spun off from direct city control into non-profit stand-alone entities that took them in many cases from mediocre to newfound success. Ditto the many improvements to Belle Isle Park, once the island was handed off to the state's Department of Natural Resources, during the bankruptcy, after years of neglect. And more: The long-term transition in the city's economy from one based entirely on giant auto-related corporations to a more entrepreneurial model with hundreds of new startups ― all started in the decade before the mayor took office. And of course Dan Gilbert moved his mortgage business from the suburbs to downtown in 2010, and had already begun his unprecedented work of revitalizing downtown's derelict buildings and filling them with his workers by the time Duggan was sworn in. More from Freep Opinion: In race to succeed Gretchen Whitmer, Gilchrist says he can unite Democrats Don't get me wrong ― I believe Duggan will rank among Detroit's greatest mayors. He ran a tight fiscal ship, won back the confidence of both residents and business leaders, restored the city's parks, nurtured a revival in many Detroit neighborhoods and used the leeway given him by the bankruptcy and Gilbert's efforts to keep moving confidently forward. You might even say his record sets him up as a credible candidate to be Michigan's next governor, as he hopes to be. But he didn't do it alone, nor did the revival start with him. One day, historians write the full history of Detroit's amazing urban recovery. They'll give Duggan his full share of credit. But they'll note the recovery was a mosaic, not a silver bullet. Duggan is one in a vast cast of players who believed in the city and worked to make it better. John Gallagher was a reporter and columnist for the Free Press for 32 years prior to his retirement in 2019. His book, Rust Belt Reporter: A Memoir, was published last year by Wayne State University Press. Submit a letter to the editor at and we may publish it online and in print. Like what you're reading? Please consider supporting local journalism and getting unlimited digital access with a Detroit Free Press subscription. We depend on readers like you. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Mike Duggan was just one part of Detroit's comeback| Opinion
Axios
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do this weekend in Metro Detroit: Jan. 31-Feb. 2
Things to Do January finally ends this weekend! Here's what's happening: 🐍 Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Eastern Market's community fair with authentic foods, crafts and cultural performances. Sunday, 11am-3pm. Free! 🪩 Dance your cares away at Spot Lite Detroit's D.A.R.E to R.A.V.E., with electronic artists 2Lanes, Duck Trash and more. Friday, 9pm. $22. 🎛️ Stop by Magic Stick to catch Jersey Shore's DJ Pauly D in action. Friday, 9pm. Limited tickets will be sold at the door. 🔁 Observe Groundhog Day at Redford Theater for a showing of Bill Murray's 1993 comedy classic. Sunday, 2pm. $7, $5 for kids and seniors. 🎥 For something edgier, check out the Marble Bar's David Lynch tribute night, where local DJs will be soundtracking his films. Costumes encouraged! Friday, 9pm. $16 🍿 The Pistons and Red Wings have games at Little Caesars all weekend. Friday: Luka Dončić and the Dallas Mavericks face Detroit at 7pm. Saturday: The Wings host the Tampa Bay Lightning at 1pm. Sunday: The Bulls and Pistons tip off at 3pm.
