With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, I thought it might be good to roast a bird to kind of get in the mood (a mood which I meant to post about a week ago–I think we’re all in the mood by now). The result: a whole, roasted chicken, seated atop some hearty vegetables and rubbed with some herbed butter.

The Thanksgiving rationale isn’t quite 100% it though. My wife had complained that with me experimenting with new recipes all the time, we never get to have the dishes we already know and love, and somehow from that conversation, she wanted a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. Seeing how that wouldn’t be a terribly exciting endeavor for me, we compromised and decided on this dish. This was also a great opportunity for me to finally try a recipe from one of Ramsay’s books, In The Heat Of The Kitchen, seeing how his method for scrambled eggs had won us over a while back (although

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Posted by mike on November 20th, 2007 in Chicken, Main course

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