What better way to say au revoir to a fantastic weekend than with Julia Child recipes. Hopefully the weekend charged us well enough to face Monday which is looming around the corner. I had a blast sailing and playing board . Don't be fooled by the mundane appearance of such activities. Sailing can get pretty wild and well, board games? Yes. They can get rather wild too. Political debates have NOTHING on Boggle night. Ok, it's not *that* bad, but....let's say, we challenge quite a bit. Que isn't a word? Well, it should be. If the whippersnappers of today can rejoice because OMG and LOL are now in the Oxford dictionary, then I am allowed to count que as a word. I'm getting way off track though, focus, ah yes. Food.
Julia Child's Roast Chicken. Adjective overload here. I'll spare you the long list of words that mean nothing to you and invite you to just prepare it and enjoy it yourself. It's mouthwatering to say the very least and so simple. I paired this with her recipe for Gratin Jurassien and italian cut green beans. Delicious.
Roast Chicken:
3-4 lb chicken
1 small carrot
1 small onion
1/4 tsp salt (i always omit salt)
2 tbs butter
For basting:
2 tbs butter and 1 tbs cooking oil in small sauce pan and a basting brush
Preheat oven to 425
Sprinkle the inside of the chicken with the salt, and smear in half the butter. Truss the chicken. Dry it thoroughly, and rub the skin with the rest of the butter.
Place chicken breast up in the roasting pan. Strew the carrot and onion around it, and set it on the rack in the middle of the preheated oven. Allow the chicken to brown lightly for 15 minutes. Turning it every 5 minutes and basting it.
Reduce oven to 350 degrees
Bake for 1 hour
Gratin Jurrassien:
4 tbs butter
2 lbs potatoes sliced
1 tsp salt (i omitted)
1/8 tsp pepper to taste (I pepper to taste)
1 cup grated swiss cheese
1 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Smear 1 tbs of butter in baking dish
Arrange layers of pototes, cheese, pats of butter, pepper
Pour the heavy whipping cream over the potatoes
Bake for 1 to 1 1/4 hours
