Roasting Chicken

I read about chickens today. Interestingly, Julia Child does not have very many recipes for chicken in this particular cookbook. She does talk about how important it is to find chickens that taste good at your local meat market. this does not mean buying mass produced chickens at a regular grocery store. Look for organic and/or free range chickens. 3 pound range is best.

To roast a chicken the french way, you actually turn it from side to side and baste and salt it along the way. The french actually cook it to between 175 and 180 whereas americans usually roast their chickens to 190.

I bought a free range local chicken from Corti Brothers (the local meat market near Katie's) and will be roasting it tomorrow.

Yesterday I made homemade chicken stock for Katie and froze 9 pints of it. I love homemade chicken stock and find that store bought stock now pales in comparison. But you can doctor the store bought stock up if you'd like and she covers that in the cookbook as well.

So, I'm excited to report how the roasting chicken will go (and I will attempt to make one of her potato recipes with it) sometime in the next few days.

Bon Appetit!