Good Eats

Today at lunch it was almost all home or locally grown.

We were fixing roast chicken with vegetables and sliced tomatoes as a side dish. In the picture are radishes from our cover crop, carrots from our garden, tomatoes from the garden, and herbs (sage, oregano, rosemary, thyme, and fennel blossoms) from our garden. The veggies are soon to be roasted with store bought potatoes and onions, and a pasture-fed chicken from Avis Acres.

The roast chicken recipe was simple. I melted butter and stirred the herbs and some roasted garlic into butter. I rubbed that mix on the chicken and sprinkled some of the herbs and salt and pepper inside the bird. The chicken and the vegetables and a bit of stock all went into a roasting pan and then into the oven.

It came out looking and smelling wonderful.

And it tasted great. These pasture-raised chickens from Avis Acres are wonderful. The leftover bits and the carcass went into the pot to make stock and we ended up with a quart and a half of nice stock to freeze.

Good eats on a late summer weekend.