Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Barbecue Update: Chicken Bomb

Posted By on Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 11:00 AM

click to enlarge Step aside, turducken. - JENNIFER FUMIKO CAHILL
  • Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
  • Step aside, turducken.

Word came in over the wire that Wild Oaks Grill had its notorious Chicken Bombs earlier this week ($10). Those are chicken breasts stuffed with hot sausage, pepperoni or shrimp, along with cream cheese and jalapeno peppers, then wrapped in smoky bacon and barbecued. Take a moment there. They're not always available, which is probably best. 

click to enlarge Fire in the hole! Hot sausage chicken bomb. - JENNIFER FUMIKO CAHILL
  • Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
  • Fire in the hole! Hot sausage chicken bomb.

The bacon alone is worth it — thick cuts of the meaty stuff on all sides — and it keeps the chicken underneath juicy. The red circle of sausage in each slice and the soft, pale green pepper are enough to give your face a little color, but the dollop of cream cheese cools things off a bit. The shrimp-stuffed bomb is a little more uptown — the cream cheese melts into the little bay shrimp like a sauce, and it's not as spicy as the sausage variety. Both are going in our Hurt Locker of deliciousness that almost killed us.

Dismantling the bombs is a hot mess after the initial slice, but it's still more dignified than "just eating it like a hotdog," as one person suggested. After all, we may be eating meat stuffed with meat and wrapped with more meat, but we're not animals.

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Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is the arts and features editor of the North Coast Journal. She won the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2020 Best Food Writing Award and the 2019 California News Publisher's Association award for Best Writing.

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