So today I am braving the unknown and roasting a chicken. For all the cooking that I have done, this is NOT something I have done before, even assisting my mom. To start, I did some research. I found the right recipe. I then read more. And totally confused myself. Some recipes said to put the bird breast side done, others said to put butter under the skin. But they all started the oven at the same temp: 425. I went to the store, picked up a 6.5 lb oven roaster. Came home, read the packaging. And was even more confused!!! The package said to roast at 350. For 2.5 hours! So I called my mom. She said to pre-heat the oven to 425. Put the chicken in and turn the oven down to 350 and roast. Since the chicken I got has a pop up thermometer, she said to roast for the short amount of time, then check the pop up to ses how much more time I should leave it in. So that is the plan.
On a side note, yesterday I discovered the joy that is the produce and fresh foods section at Whole Foods in Annapolis. I've been there before, to the old location, and wasn't really impressed. There were strange brands and different kinds of foods that I really wasn't interested in trying or needed. But yesterday was a different experience. They had some great looking apples and other produce. I went with my friend and we got stuff for dinner last night. We got some really good sweet chipotle balck bean dip. To die for!!!! They even had organic heavy cream in the cool bottles. I got one because on top of cooking chicken, I'm making butter again! Yum.
Well I hope everyone enjoys their end of October today. The weather is great outside!!!!
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