Delicious chicken
Today I am going to show Mr. Jenner how to roast a chicken. It is one of those no-brainer things to make and I told him while he has a great repertoire of dishes he needs to add things to it now and then. The whole chicken has been sitting in a brine for several hours (I started it yesterday) and the brine has kosher salt, bay leaves, a bit of fresh dill and a whole head of crushed garlic. I think this will smell good and be quite moist.
Later on we will stick about half of lemon (cut up into a few smaller pieces) into the cavity of the chicken, and maybe if I am in the mood to cheat death some more I will massage a lot of butter into the the skin of the chicken and then roast that sucker for a couple of hours. I think it will be quite delicious in the end and we will have to post a few pictures to show the final product.
Yesterday I was watching America's Test Kitchen and they were making Chicken Diavola. here is the same recipe only for charcoal BBQs. It looked amazing. Plus they also made strawberries with a balsamic vinegar sauce to go with it which I don't think is for everyone but definitely looked intriguing.
When I was super dirt poor, my brother (who was living with me) and I would take our pennies and buy a whole roasting chicken and roast it and make it last for several days. Where we live you can get a half-way decent chicken for 4 or 5 bucks. While our friends were living on ramen and wishful thinking we were able to eat some genuine protein and I think it probably helped us stay healthy since we didn't have health insurance either. We would eat roast chicken the first night and then eat chicken salad sandwiches and then eat soup for a couple of days. Turned out to be a fairly economical situation.
A bit of chicken can go a long way.
portions cross-posted to my own journal
Later on we will stick about half of lemon (cut up into a few smaller pieces) into the cavity of the chicken, and maybe if I am in the mood to cheat death some more I will massage a lot of butter into the the skin of the chicken and then roast that sucker for a couple of hours. I think it will be quite delicious in the end and we will have to post a few pictures to show the final product.
Yesterday I was watching America's Test Kitchen and they were making Chicken Diavola. here is the same recipe only for charcoal BBQs. It looked amazing. Plus they also made strawberries with a balsamic vinegar sauce to go with it which I don't think is for everyone but definitely looked intriguing.
When I was super dirt poor, my brother (who was living with me) and I would take our pennies and buy a whole roasting chicken and roast it and make it last for several days. Where we live you can get a half-way decent chicken for 4 or 5 bucks. While our friends were living on ramen and wishful thinking we were able to eat some genuine protein and I think it probably helped us stay healthy since we didn't have health insurance either. We would eat roast chicken the first night and then eat chicken salad sandwiches and then eat soup for a couple of days. Turned out to be a fairly economical situation.
A bit of chicken can go a long way.
portions cross-posted to my own journal