Rockstar Chickin

The finished masterpeice! Damn it was good!

I actually had planned on spending quite a lot of time writing a long blog today, there's a whole load of things going on in my head that I wanted to write about, but my dear wife hogged the computer the whole day! Of course it was 'important' stuff she was busy with, so I had to back off and go about my business, which included a trip to the airport to drop off my dad's hired car and to my brothers place to collect my trusty little Polo.

On the way home Tammy and I stopped off at my mom's place for a quick visit and then also at Ouma. Doing the family duty - gotta visit the grandmother, which I do every month or two, yet I still got branded as part of the family who 'never' visits! Anyway, no worries, I can appreciate she must be pretty lonely otherwise so I'll take the moaning on the knuckles if it makes a difference to the old bird. It was a pleasant visit otherwise, she enjoyed seeing Tammy as always, despite Tammy progressing progressively grumpier because she was sleepy.

Got home then went grocery shopping, alone, with a hungry belly... not a good idea! Along with the stuff on the list I came out with crisps, sausages, creme soda, etc. Got home and proceeded to cook dinner:

Justin's Rockstar Chickin - best Sunday roast in town!

Chicken stuffed with onion & garlic, and potatoes.

Mushrooms with butter & chopped peppadews.

• The chickin - One whole chicken, biggest one I could find in the supermarket. One whole bulb of garlic, all the cloves peeled and shoved up the birds asshole plugged up with about 10 peeled baby onions. Seasoned with half a packet of brown onion soup, salt and dried rosemary.
• The taters - 7 large potatoes peeled and cut up into sizeable chunks, and boiled for about 20 minutes to soften them and make the edges fluffy. Then added to the roasting tray with the chicken, drizzled with Canola oil, sprinkled with salt, pepper, rosemary and the rest of the packet of brown onion soup.
• Shrooms - a standard pack of Pick & Pay white mushrooms, whole and washed, in a small baking tray. Topped with chopped peppadews and generous squirts of lemon juice. Sprinkled with dried mixed herbs.
• Squash - 2 large gemsquashes, boiled and mashed with butter, cinnamon and a little sugar. Tammy loves this!
• Veg - Fresh baby carrots, steamed.
• Rice and gravy, which was a Knorr Chicken Gravy, in a packet, mixed with some of the juice from the chicken roasting dish for flavour. AND FOR ONCE THE RICE CAME OUT ALMOST PERFECTLY!!! YIPPEEE!!! Progress in my cooking skills, I'm proud of myself!

 I have to vainly admit my food was awesome! My wife, who is usually quite fussy and unashamedly critical of my "big effort" meals, admitted that she was thoroughly enjoying every flavour and ingredient of the meal! The chicken was juicy and tender, the mushrooms had a perfectly balanced sweet and sour tanginess, the vegetables so good even Tammy ate about half of hers! My favourite were the potatoes - they were magnificent! Crispy on the outside and soft & moist on the inside; the brown onion soup cakes on top to create a burst of salty flavour.

Actually the whole meal was simply fantastic!

For dessert we had sweetened custard with tinned fruit cocktail.

We are now stuffed to an uncomfortable capacity!

So, that long blog I was going to write today might happen tomorrow. Right now I'm going to watch the Sunday night movie, of which I have missed half an hour already!