Archived entries for Chicken

Roasting Chicken

Perhaps it’s just me, but I don’t think that roasting whole chickens is as easy as everyone makes it out to be.

Food magazines and food writers pretend that it’s a snap – “Just flavor it, truss it, cook it, and voila!  You’re done!”  Now that I’ve been in school for a few months, I’ve roasted [read more ...]

The Chicken Dance

I did it.
And I loved it.
After carefully reviewing your answers to my poultry poll, I decided that the whole experience would be more relaxing for me if I ate it at a restaurant, with friends. (Thanks, by the way, for your warm, encouraging, and somewhat .. colorful answers).
My good friend Melissa joined me at Pastabilities [read more ...]

A Poultry Poll

I have an announcement to make.
(Dramatic Pause)
I have decided to bring chicken into my diet.
(PETA staffers, feel free to delete me from your Facebook accounts, and we’ll call my internship last summer a fluke).
As you may know, I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 14. The whole experience started with an uncle’s insistence that [read more ...]