Oven Roasted Chicken Together With Blogger Tag

Roasted chicken

I’ve fallen into the dreary trap of grocery shop roasted chicken!  I’ve ever wanted to roast my ain together with likely receive got a few times over the years, but but don’t remember.

But the other 24-hour interval at the shop I saw beautiful, plump, whole – never earlier  frozen – roasting chickens on sale!  I picked out a prissy hen who seemed to locomote good proportioned together with proclaimed “we now have the makings of a fine dinner.”  Then I start wondering, (as I oft produce later I realize at that topographic point is no innovation inward place) produce I materials it?  Do I seat a sauce on it?  What is the best agency to savor this bird?  After reading several cookbook sections on roasting chickens, I constitute most agreed there must locomote fresh rosemary, garlic, olive oil, salt, pepper together with lemon involved.

It doesn’t receive got that beautiful crispy pare yous unremarkably meet on a roasted chicken.

(The nigh beautiful chicken I’ve ever seen is over at Oil & Butter.  Seriously oral fissure watering)

This chicken was non roasted normally.  Unfortunately it was inward the oven when the oven died together with had to be finished inward the crock pot.  But hello – it tastes great!

The recipe that caught my oculus was inward Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook & Kitchen Reader with all the basic ingredients such every bit lemon, garlic, fresh rosemary, olive oil, common salt together with pepper.

I washed the hen together with patted her dry out amongst a newspaper towel. Be certain to banking concern fit the cavity for the giblet bag.  For terrific chicken broth gently simmer these niggling gems until the cervix meat is falling off the bone.  The chicken liver together with cervix meat tin laissez passer on the axe locomote diced together with added to giblet gravy.   I was non planning to build gravy thus I gave the dogs a process on their nightly dinner.  The giblets were cooked WAY earlier the chicken was!

Once rinsed together with patted dry, rub the pare amongst a few sliced garlic gloves.

Make deep pockets nether the thorax pare together with tuck several garlic cloves together with 2 fatty slices of lemon inside.  Add one-half a lemon together with several garlic cloves inward the cavity.

Rub the chicken generously amongst a adept olive oil.  (It rubs the lotion on the pare or else it gets the hose again!  Name that movie!)  Sprinkle on salt, cracked pepper, together with fresh rosemary leaves.

Now for the cooking usage … Roast for thirty minutes at 450 degrees, thus plow downward the oven to 350 degrees together with roast for 1 hour.

After an lx minutes together with a one-half I realized the chicken was notwithstanding raw.   I knew correct thus together with there, the oven was gone.  This oven had been cooking slower together with slower together with slower.  It in conclusion gave out together with I gave up!  I seat this fine hen inward the crock pot together with dinner was railroad train at 10:00 p.m.

I’m actually non whining because we’re getting a build novel oven / stove delivered Friday!  What should I bake first???  I’m getting pretty excited.

This chicken actually did plow out tender together with juicy fifty-fifty if the pare is non tan together with crispy.

Be certain to permit it laid thirty minutes or thus earlier carving.

Blogger Tag

My friend Sarah at The Smart Kitchen tagged me inward a blogger game of 4-squares.  Thanks for thinking of me Sarah!  And yes, I read yous every, unmarried day!  If yous haven’t checked out her blog, you’re missing out on a adept laugh each day.  Sarah is a schoolhouse instructor inward Austin Texas together with a dedicated salubrious nutrient blogger that loves bacon.  Go figure 🙂  My turn!

Four TV Shows I Watch

1. Grey’s Anatomy

2. Biggest Loser

3. Parenthood

4. NCIS

Four Words/Phrases I Use Too Much

1. that, that, that, that

2. Oh really?

3. Hey together with Ya’ll

4. You larn girl

Four Things I’m Craving

1. Oven roasted chicken

2. Peanut butter chocolate flake cookies

3. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 drinkable (martini perhaps?)

4. Banana smoothie

Four Things I’ve Learned From The Past

1. Life is 10% what happens to yous together with 90% how yous react to it.  (Attitude by Charles Swindoll)

2. Count to 10 earlier yous blurt something out of your oral fissure yous can’t receive got back.

3. I receive got no sentiment what mortal else’s life is similar or what problems they have.  Give em a break.

4. You can’t pass your entire life on a diet.  Sometimes yous require to salvage room for dessert.

Four Things I’m Looking Forward To

1. My novel oven!

2. The upcoming iv 24-hour interval weekend.

3. Trying to build Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Balls this weekend.

4. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 trip to Asheville amongst my married adult man together with cousin.

Four Things I Love About Winter

1. Snow

2. Scarfs

3. Warm slippers

4. Knowing that Spring is but around the corner

Four Newest Blogs Added To My Reader

1. Oil & Butter

2. Cabin Fever inward Vermont

3. Hungry Jenny

4. Foodies Not Fatties

Four Bloggers I’m Passing This Along To

1. Jenny @ Hungry Jenny

2. Allie @ Live, Laugh & Eat

3. Kat & Laura @ Foodies Not Fatties

4. Jen @ Cabin Fever inward Vermont

Check dorsum tomorrow for a terrific meatloaf recipe but inward fourth dimension for the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tricia

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