Roast Chicken for Les Paresseux - FFWDORIE

Roast chicken. I think I was probably eating one roast chicken with potatoes cooked in chicken drippings every week when I grew up. What I liked even better was to dip a piece of fresh baguette in the leftover juice at the end of the meal. Ahhhh, it was so good... I really makes me wonder why I had never made a roast chicken by myself before.

I bought a nice looking fat organic chicken. It was so big, it took all the space of my Le Creuset. I could not even put the lid on. I added the garlic, some rosemary, and herbes de provence, et Voila. Perfect roasted chicken.

It smelled incredible, was really easy to make, and the juice was as good as the chicken from my childhood. I wish I had a bigger pot to add some potatoes in there.

I will definitively make this again.

Hachis Parmentier - FFWDORIE

Today's recipe was hachis parmentier. A French classic; I am French, it should be a piece of cake. I forgot that it was also a full moon. I think I should stay away from the kitchen on full moon days.

First, my ground beef and sausages did not break into small bits, as they usually do. Then, I realized I had bought and cooked the wrong kind of potatoes after I started mashing them. My purée was a biphasic matter, half too soft, with pieces of hard potatoes (do not use Trader Joe's golden potatoes for mashed potato). Yuk. How could I fail my mashed potatoes, and my guests who came for the hachis parmentier were already waiting in the living room, arghhhh.

 

The final hachis parmentier looked ok, and tasted ok too. My guests finished it all.

For the record, I also manage to screw up the chocolate sauce for my poached pears. I am sure this had to do with the full moon.

Other bonne idee: you can use duck confit in place of the steak, it's delicious.