This Southern Living recipe just looked too good not to try and turned out to be pretty simple to prepare, as well. Although the recipe said that boneless breasts or pork tenderloin could be used, I stayed with the thighs in hopes of a more moist meat. The thighs marinated for about 20 hours and were true to recipe in only needing about 5 minutes per side on the grill. At that point, I pulled them from the grill and wrapped them, covered in the fresh lemon juice, in foil and kept them in the warming oven until Chef D arrived home from work. I used polenta in the place of the called-for grits (since I had some in the cupboard that needed to be used) and used chicken stock instead of water. As always, it ended up needing extra liquid so I added about 1/2 cup of water extra during the 25 minutes of cooking. I wasn't too sure about the spinach, but decided to give it a shot. Chef D was quite the good sport and ate all his spinach, even though I know it would not have been his choice of vegetable. Personally, I did not care for it either, but ate mine as well. The chicken was good and the polenta was divine (in my mind, grits are the perfect food). I will definitely fix the chicken and grits again:)
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