The weekend is the perfect time for the solo cook -- or anyone-- to roast a chicken. Why not? If you'd like a friend to come over for dinner the day you make this, all the better. If not, no problem. Plenty for you all weekend long, bones and bits for stock, and luscious sandwiches or salads or soup for lunch for a couple of days. Put on the music, pour a little wine, set yourself a pretty place just for the two (or one) of you or put on a good movie while the whole meal cooks at once without you stirring a thing.
Skip the rotisserie chicken at the store, despite the price--at least for this time. Save it for when you're really desperate. They're often old, tiny, stringy, overdone, mushy, or include some ingredients you don't really want to eat. If you have a couple of hours, you have your own chicken. I mean, sticking a whole chicken in the oven can't be too hard, right?
(I'll talk you through the process to a golden, tender, beautiful
chicken.) While I've blogged my own roast chicken recipes before (scroll down to bottom), this one happens to be Perfect Roast Chicken by Ina Garten.
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