My first roast chicken! I was scared. But there's no need to be! I can totally do this.
Very simple method for roasting a chicken. Salt it and put it in a hot oven for an hour. I had two five-pound birds--smaller is apparently better--but they cooked nicely. A little dry in the breast, but actually very nice overall. Next time I'd try butterflying it to get more even cooking?
One with lemons and one with an onion--prefer that. Skin did get nice and crispy but flabbed out during the resting period--look into throwing it back in at high heat to re-crisp. Put carrots and onions underneath the birds and they got beautifully soft and melty, then threw them in the pan to make the sauce--maybe next time don't do that, as the sauce got a little muddled-flavored. Bottom line: nice work, you made a chicken!
chickennnnnn
sauuuuuceeeee
plus some mashed potatoes--sort of lost my mind in the pre-dinner rush and put in way too much milk, and then burned the butter. Doh. So try these again, I bet they're delicious! But they were still pretty good, as mashed potatoes are wont to be.
potatoeeeeeees
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