Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Tonight's spectacular offering is a whole roasted chicken, honey glazed carrots and a green salad with lemon and olive oil dressing.

Ok, it's just a baked chicken which is pretty good but the best part is the left over meat to use for dinner another night.  Like tomorrow night when my son and I both go to Tae Kwon Do class which doesn't really leave much time to cook.  Or eat.

First off I've gotta say, this chicken was big!  I'm pretty sure Costco raises it's chickens near a nuclear reactor.  Or atomic bomb factory.  And it took forever to cook!  I figured an hour at 350F but it was closer to two hours.  My son got tired of waiting and left for my sister's to go eat.  She promised toasted marshmallows.

On to the recipes.  For the chicken and carrots.  Not the marshmallows.  You have see my sister for that.

The chicken:

1 atomic chicken
Salt, chili powder, cumin, coriander any other spices or dried herbs you happen like.

The carrots:

Some peeled carrots.  I don't know how many, that depends on how hungry you are.
A little bit of butter.  Seriously, a little bit of butter.  Don't go crazy.  It's butter.
Salt
Honey.  Just enough to make it a bit sweet, carrots are sweet on their own and we're making a side dish, not a dessert.

So the chicken....mix all the spices, salt and dried herbs together.  How much of each depends on you.  I know how much I used but it I tasted as I mixed it.  You're going to have to do the same.  Sorry.  First get salt and rub it around the cavity of the chicken.  Then take the spice mix and rub it under the skin covering the breast.  Put the chicken in a roasting dish, breast side down and rub the rest of the spice mix over the skin on the back and legs.  Putting the chicken in breast side down  gives a juicier breast and keeps it from drying out.  Bake it at 350F for at least an hour.  It's done when the legs are loose and pull out easily.  I'm not sure how long that will take.  It depends on your oven.  And the atomic level of your chicken.

The carrots:

Peeled and chop the carrots.  Put the little bit of butter in the pan along with the carrots.  Sprinkle in some salt and add a little honey.  Mix it all around and let the butter melt.  Let it cook and stir every once in a while.  When the melted butter and everything thickens up a bit and glazes the carrots it's done.  And really good.  Really.

Oh, and the dressing in case you want to make that, too.  It's just lemon juice, olive oil and salt and pepper.  Super easy.  And good.  To me anyway.  Maybe you don't like lemons.