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  1. Easy Roasted Chicken

    Easy Roasted Chicken is a staple meal, that guarantees meal prepping and meal planning success! This no-fail, foolproof approach to Roasted Chicken takes just a few ingredients and a thermometer, for you to master. Grab the recipe for my Easy Roasted Chicken and enter to win a set of Copper Chef Wonder Cooker pans.

    Easy Roasted Chicken {paleo, keto, whole30, gluten-free}

    Easy Roasted Chicken {paleo, keto, whole30, gluten-free}

    There is nothing quite like an impressive meal that requires very little fuss. There is also something to be said for those cozy, beloved meals that bring comfort, despite how basic they may be.

    An easy roasted chicken has the power to comfort. Read on for not only my simple technique for roasted chicken but also for an amazing giveaway for this beautiful, versatile Copper Chef Wonder Cooker.

    I am super excited about this new Copper Chef Wonder Cooker that I have had the pleasure of experimenting and playing with over the last week. This 14-in-1 multi-cooker set is not only impressive in the many ways that you can use it, but it’s a stunner, a perfect addition to any foodie’s kitchen collection.

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  2. Skillet Roasted Chicken Thighs with Rosemary, Lemon and Olives

    Skillet Roasted Chicken Thighs with Rosemary, Lemon and Olives

    Meal planning for busy weeks can be at times be a challenge, to say the least. Even for someone like me, which is kinda insane considering I like I think about food well over 3/4 of the day. It takes a lot to keep things fun, fresh and interesting, while being healthy, easy and swift. This is all especially important during the mid-week craziness.

    If you are a regular reader of Tasty Yummies, you are always seeing the many, fun and unique ways that I prepare my vegetables, it is something I take great pride in, they truly inspire me. Since we eat meat sparingly around here, it’s not an every night thing, so I am always seeking simple ways to prepare different proteins that wow me, the way veggies can.

    Skillet Roasted Chicken Thighs with Rosemary, Lemon and Olives

    Skillet Roasted Chicken Thighs with Rosemary, Lemon and Olives

    Truth be told, I never really understood the obsession with boneless skinless chicken breasts. So flavorless, so boring. Blah! Get yourself some (well-raised) chicken thighs, skin-on, bone-in and my friends, that’s where all the flavor is at. You get some crispy skin and now we’re talking about succulent goodness. Let’s start a chicken revolution.

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  3. Open-Face Chicken Salad Sandwich

    Open-Face Chicken Salad Sandwich

    On more than one occasion after roasting or grilling one of whole chickens from Sojourner Farms, we have taken the leftovers and thrown together the tastiest chicken salad we’ve ever had. I decided to take one of the chickens this week and roast it, with the sole purpose of making the best chicken salad ever! I roasted it very simply with just salt and pepper, no oil or anything else.

    Simple Roast Chicken

    One 3- to 4-pound farm-raised chicken
    Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

    Preheat the oven to 450°F. Rinse the chicken, then dry it very well with paper towels, inside and out. The less it steams, the drier the heat, the better.
    Salt and pepper the cavity. Now, salt the chicken— try to rain the salt over the bird so that it has a nice uniform coating that will result in a crisp, salty, flavorful skin (about 1 tablespoon). When it’s cooked, you should still be able to make out the salt baked onto the crisp skin. Season to taste with pepper.

    Place the chicken in a roasting pan and, when the oven is up to temperature, put the chicken in the oven. I left it alone—I didn’t add butter or olive oil; you can if you wish, but I feel this creates steam, which I didn’t want. Roast it until it’s done, 50 to 60 minutes. Remove it from the oven and let it rest for 15 minutes on a cutting board.

    Chicken Salad
    4-cups (or thereabouts) of chicken from a whole roast chicken
    1 cup of homemade aioli (or any mayo of your choice)
    2 to 3 green onions, sliced thinly
    kosher salt
    fresh ground black pepper

    After the chicken has cooled enough to handle it, remove all of the meat and skin. Put the skin to the side or give it to your husband as a late night snack, like I did. Using kitchen shears or a knife and fork, cut the meat into bit sized pieces or shred it. I placed the chicken in a bowl and allowed it to cool overnight in the refrigerator.

    After the chicken is cooled, add the aioli and green onions to the chicken, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well to coat all of the chicken. Add more aioli if needed. This can be made ahead of time, covered and chilled.

    The Sandwich

    2 slices of your favorite sandwich bread (see my recipe for gluten-free sandwich bread)
    Aioli
    1 plum tomato, sliced thinly
    Arugula or Lettuce
    Salt and Pepper
    Any other condiments of your choice

    Toast the bread to your liking. Spread a thin layer of aioli on each slice of bread and top with the chicken salad, top with a bit of fresh ground pepper. Place two thin slices of tomato on top. Add lettuce or anything else you might like. Enjoy the tastiest chicken salad you will ever have.

  4. Roast Chicken, Apples, Leeks and Baby Potatoes

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    Yesterday was the first day of our big Farmers Market at Elmwood and Bidwell and I knew all week that the weather was doomed for it’s opening day. We decided to meet my parents there right at 9 am to possibly beat the rain and wind. It actually wasn’t too bad, though it felt more like a very cool Autumn Day, not Spring. We walked around, looked at everything, ran into friends and began to make a plan for what we wanted to buy. The sun even peaked out a time or two. Eventually dark clouds made their way overhead, the wind picked up and we knew we should probably make our purchases soon.

    We got so much great stuff, apples, leeks, spinach, asparagus, baby potatoes, veggie burgers, yogurt leek sauce, homemade strawberry jam, fresh from the farm eggs, sausage, bacon, and a beautiful, whole, fresh Heritage chicken. I decided this would be dinner. A roast chicken. It was the perfect day for it, it was cold, rainy and windy and I just wanted to stay in. So, I took a look at everything else we bought and made a plan.

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    Roast Chicken, Apples, Leeks and Baby Potatoes

    Serves 2 with leftover veggies

    2 medium apples (I used Crispin) chopped
    1 leek (white and light green parts), chopped
    1 pound of baby potatoes, halved
    4 small sprigs fresh rosemary, chopped
    olive oil
    Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
    1 3 pound whole chicken – we had a farm raised, all natural, heritage chicken from Painted Meadows Farms in Franklinville, NY

    Preheat your oven to 350° F

    Rinse the bird, inside and out and pat dry. Place the potatoes, leeks and apples in the roasting tray of a large roasting pan, place the chicken in the center (breast side up). Drizzle olive oil over everything, making sure to get a good light coating over the whole bird to give you a crispy, perfectly browned skin. Sprinkle everything with rosemary, sea salt and freshly ground pepper. You can also sprinkle the inside of the bird with your spices as well, I did that plus I stuffed a couple of chopped leeks in there, as well as a whole sprig of rosemary. Toss the vegetables gently to make sure they are coated.

    Roast the chicken until it is cooked through and the apples, potatoes and leeks are tender. I took the chicken out around 2 hours and the veggies could still use more time, so I took the chicken out to rest, took the vegetables out of the roasting tray so they could cook in the juices from the chicken and turned the oven up to 400° F. I wanted to get them really brown and crispy, the way we like them. Taste the veggies as they are done and season to taste with salt and pepper.

    Allow the chicken to rest 10-15 minutes before cutting into it, this will allow the juices to redistribute. Serve with a nice helping of the apples, leeks and potatoes.

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    We found that the Heritage Chicken was much different from any other chicken we had ever roasted before, it had an incredible scent when it came out of the oven and it tasted so amazing, a much more rich chicken flavor than from the grocery store chickens. We found the dark meat to be very dark and slightly tougher (almost gamier), a bit more like a cornish hen. However, the breast meat was impeccable, what chicken should taste like, the best I have ever had. The skin, though I don’t typically eat it any way, was thicker than usual and tough to eat. Mark usually eats as much as he can before I start nagging him about the fat, but this time he couldn’t eat much. I’ll have to ask the women we bought the chicken from next week if there is a trick for cooking the Heritage birds, from what I had read it is best to cook these birds low and slow so as not to dry them out and toughen the meat. The legs on this bird seemed longer than I have ever seen and they were sticking straight up (!), but I didn’t have any kitchen twine to truss them, so I went without. I am curious if that could have been why the leg meat seemed tougher, maybe it was overcooked.

    We ate dinner a bit later than normal last night, so by the time it was ready it was fairly dark and the pictures of the finished bird are not that great. Still working on a way around the night-time photos.

    All in all, this was the perfect start to the farmers market season, I cannot wait to make more meals this week with the goodies we bought and of course to go back next week.

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