Winner winner chicken dinner

I decided to cook again. My family has been looking a bit skeletal so I thought it was probably time....

So here's what I cooked:

Perfect Roast Chicken
page 67 of Stirring The Pot

I know. I cooked it on its belly when it should have been on its back. It was amazing though. The smell....oh my gosh, the smell was AMAZING! This is easily hands down the most flavorful chicken I have ever cooked. I put a paste made of tons of garlic, butter, parsley, thyme, rosemary, etc....I left out the lemon though because I'm still a bit scarred from the Provencal Chicken. And I didn't put mushrooms in with the chicken while I roasted. It was still brilliant.

If you haven't gone out to buy Tyler's cookbooks (shame on you!) he does a write up before most of his recipes. The write up on this recipe was really funny because of my inspiration to learn cooking (Julie & Julia). Here's what he said:

"At Tyler Florence: Mill Valley, my kitchen retail shop, I have a constant loop of vintage shows of Julia Child's The French Chef playing on the wall. In my favorite episode, she roasts a chicken. Before she passed, Julia once mentioned that she was a fan of mine and I honestly couldn't have been more flattered. But she also said she didn't agree with my method of roasting a chicken, and I'll tell you, I've made it my mission to right that wrong. So I thought this would be the ideal opportunity to walk you through, step-by-step, roasting the perfect chicken. I think you will find this helpful and that it would make Julia proud."

I think she would be proud of this one Tyler. Scrap the Provencal Chicken and just stick with this one. Just my little tidbit of advice. Love you Tyler!

I wish I could go to Tyler's Mill Valley kitchen retail shop. But I probably won't because I don't think a trip to Cali is in my near future. Partly because I'm so busy....I'll get to that in a bit....but the other reason is because I'm going HERE instead:

My friend Heather opened this store and it has the CUTEST stuff ever. I can't wait to go and shop my face off. For realsies. See you there!

Here's why else I'm too busy to go to Cali:

That's right. My poor puppy broke his leg. Duke was going with Ryan to be a farm dog and he just wasn't big enough yet to understand not to jump out of the truck. The truck was barely moving but it's pretty high up for a 10 week old puppy to jump out of. Dukers got a cute cast that is now off...partly because he is better and partly because he grew out of/chewed it in the 10 days it was on. He was already a big snuggly baby and this has made him worse. He tries to climb up on your lap to get a good belly rub which is hilarious because he's just so big! I'm pretty sure he won't ever jump out of the back of a truck again.

We've also been really busy shipping potatoes from the storage bin to the Old Dutch Potato Chip plant. I had a good picture from doing that but this post is getting too long so maybe next time I'll post it. Plus I'm tired so maybe I'll take a nap....