NEW YEARS DAY!
Today I cooked! I got distracted, and didn’t start until later than planned, but I did it! I cooked a roasted chicken with this Martha Stuart recipe, with a few changes:
- I pulled it out of the freezer 2 days before
- 1 day before(it was actually kind of frozen) I rinsed it off and salt and peppered the surface to help dry out the skin(after googling, I found that many people suggested that)
- I cooked it in my new Cast Iron Skillet
- I learned how to truss (fancy word for tie it up) a chicken without any twine! and thus did so
- Also, I only cooked it to 165 (but I made sure it read 165 in several spots.
Here is a picture of the beautiful chicken (and my surprisingly successful attempt at carving it):
While the chicken was cooking, I started simmering the ingredients (minus the chicken bones) in water following this bone stock recipe and then added the carcass after carving up the chicken. I had no idea how delicious the meat in the middle by the chicken’s inner cavity was. YUM. The stock also turned out delicious, however, by the time the stock was done it was midnight so I didn’t make the soup.
Before going to bed I did my dishes! I definitely didn’t want to, but I did them anyway 🙂 I’m trying really hard to build that habit.
Are there any habits you are trying to build this year?? Feel free to tell me in the comments below!