Yummy Food and Haircuts for the Boys!

I finally got the chicken done right! (Don't mock how I hooked the wings, it seemed to work just fine even if it's not the traditional way.)I've attempted to roast several whole chickens and the result is they usually turn out o.k but not great and not usually a flavor we're dying to try again. This time it was pretty yummy and it looked good when it was done, it's definitely an improvement! This was an easy recipe to follow. I got it out of a Taste of Homes Thanksgiving magazine. Here's the recipe if anyone wants to try it:

GARLIC-ROASTED CHICKEN AND VEGETABLES

1 5-6 pound Roasting Chicken

4 Tablespoons Butter, (softened&divided)
15 Garlic cloves, halved

1 can Chicken Broth

1/4 cup each olive oil and lemon juice

1-2 Tablespoons dried Oregano

1 teaspoon Salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

10 red potatoes cut into chunks

2 cups baby carrots

1 medium red onion, thinly sliced

1-Rub inside of chicken with 2 Tablespoons butter. With knife cut 16 slits all over chicken and place halves of garlic cloves into slits. Put chicken on rack in roasting pan and tie drumsticks together. (I sliced a whole lemon up and put some pieces inside the chicken and left some out around the chicken, it just added to the fresh lemon flavor)

2-Put remaining garlic cloves around chicken in pan. Pour half the chicken broth over chicken. Combine oil and lemon juice and pour half over chicken. Rub remaining butter over outside of chicken. Combine oregano, salt, pepper, and garlic powder and sprinkle half over chicken. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

3-Take Chicken out and add potatoes, carrots and onion to bottom of pan. Drizzle with remaining oil and lemon juice, and chicken broth. Sprinkle with remaining oregano mixture. Then cover and bake for 30 minutes more. Baste chicken and uncover and bake 45-50 minutes longer. Until a meat thermometer reads 180 degrees when inserted into chicken. Juices can be thickened and made into a gravy.

We served our chicken with green bread....I just thought I'd post a picture of what it looks like since I gave the recipe out earlier without a picture. This is really yummy too and my Boys like it and eat it up!

Haircut time! It was time! Our Boys were getting kind of shaggy! And as usual Mom cut their hair too short. I used a #6 for crying out loud! Every time I cut Aidan's hair it looks like he got buzzed and Corbin doesn't look much different. Oh well! That's what ya get for a free haircut, right?! It all grows back and they won't need another hair cut for a while.

Oh, Thanks Mom the Soft Scrub cleaner did the trick for our bar stools! It took all the marker, right off with just a bit of hard scrubbing. That stuff works magic...not the cheapest stuff on the shelf but for what it'll do, it's worth having a bottle under the sink.