The Best Roast Chicken

Crispy Lemon and Herb Butter Chicken

This has been , by far, one of the best roast chicken I ever had in my life. We roasted chicken for dinner on Friday. This is one recipe, I would really love you guys out there to try.

~Ingredients~

• 1 fresh chicken
• a bunch of basil, not too much as its flavour is quite strong
• a bunch of parsley
• a bunch of rosemary
• 2 lemons
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 150g of butter
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• salt and pepper

~Directions~

1. Leave the butter in a mixing bowl, until it reaches room temperature. Chop up all the herbs, and mix it in with the butter.
2. Grate the lemon zest, the yellow of the lemon, into the bowl with the butter and herbs.
3. Grate the garlic, and mix it in with the rest.
4. Squeeze the lemon juice into the mixing bowl. I would say, use only 1 lemon for its juice.
5. Mix the herb butter evenly.
6. Now, carefully loosen the skin of the chicken from the meat. This can be done with your fingers, or by using a butter knife ( a rounded edge knife).
7. Grab a chunk of butter, and spread it evenly between the skin and the meat. Press the skin of the chicken to push the herb butter to other parts of the chicken.
8. If there are any remaining juices in the mixing bowl, you could just pour it over the chicken, or over potatoes if you want them. Be careful not to let the roasting tin, where your chicken is, be soaked with too much lemon juice, or the underneath wouldn't be roasted properly.
9. Cook in an oven for about 50 mins to 1 hour at 225 degrees Celsius.

You can roast potatoes or mash potatoes to serve it with the chicken.

I'M TELLING YOU, THIS IS SOMETHING ANYONE SHOULDN'T MISS.

*Sorry for the lousy pic =P

Recipe awakening

I may be Bread Boy but since this blog is suffocating *choke, choke*....
I might at well give it some oxygen to live...

Here is a scrumptious pasta for you guys and girls (that comes here once in a blue moon) to try!!

Farro Spaghetti with Three Kinds of Garlic

~INGREDIENTS~

· 1 plus 8 cloves garlic
· 4 tablespoons olive oil
· Coarse salt and and freshly ground pepper
· 1 pound farro spaghetti
· 3/4 cup dry white wine
· 1 cup loosely packed, chopped fresh parsley
· 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes Parmesan, for grating

~DIRECTIONS~

1. Heat oven to 425 degrees. Wrap garlic head in parchment paper-lined foil; drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil, and season with salt and pepper. Roast until soft and golden, about 1 hour. Let cool, trim tip of head; squeeze out cloves, using back of knife. Transfer to small bowl; set aside.

2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add salt and pasta; cook according to package directions until al dente; drain.

3. Thinly slice 5 cloves of unroasted garlic; finely chop remaining 3 cloves. Heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil over medium heat in a large skillet. Add sliced garlic; toast until golden and crisp. Using a slotted spoon, remove garlic; set aside. Add chopped garlic; sauté until translucent, about 1 1/2 minutes. Add roasted garlic and white wine; let simmer about 3 minutes. Add pasta, parsley, and red pepper; season with salt and pepper. Toss to combine. Garnish with toasted garlic slivers; serve. Grate cheese over each serving, as desired.

~SUGGESTIONS~

· Use farro pasta for added fiber, protein, and vitamin E.
· To remove the odor of garlic from your fingers,
rub them on a stainless steel spoon under running water.
· Store extra roasted garlic in a jar filled with olive oil in the refrigerator.

Go try it out today and hope you like it!!

Long time no post..

I know, Head chef is so busy nowadays!!
Busy busy like a bee,
Hunting honey, forget about me!!

Its up to Bread Boy to save the blog!!
LOL!!

Anyway, the blog is accumulating dust and it is my job to clean it...

Im here just to lighten up the blog...
No reason to put any recipe or so whatever...

Just want to remind Justin one thing...
WAKE UP!!

That's all...

~~Bread Boy goes up and study biology...~~

On Hold till Friday

Sorry for the long wait. I haven't been posting anything on this blog coz I havne't had any idea on what recipe to put.

But this is all gonna end as my uncle from Australia, which is chef, is coming for a visit TOMORROW!! He'll then be going to Europe for a holiday with my aunt. He'll definitely be giving me something to write about , or talk about some food, which I can then modify or something, and post it.

And to talk about food, I'm intending on doing something ( I always have intentions on doing some event or something...lolz) about 5 beta, my other friends, and my PL 1 class. Dunno if its gonna work out...i hope so.

By the way, have anyone seen The Star to day? Pull out the Metro and turn to a page where there is something i'm so fascinated about!! They look so cool, and they even have a competition!! Wonder when I can be dressed in something so nice...haiz =(.

Kayz for now.

My little Italy

I haven't fully prepared my recipe this time round, so instead, I'll be posting about my holiday in the great country of Italy.

I actually only went to Rome, Italy. Stayed there for 3 nights then my family and I went back to London. We visited places like St. Petersburg, the Coliseum ( I'm not sure how to spell it), and other historical places.

But I'm not gonna tell you about those places, and I'm sure that's not you wanna read from this blog. All I'm gonna write about are the restaurants and food I tasted while I was in Rome.

We arrived in the evening, about 5, but it was already dark. Hungry as we were, after a lousy journey from London by Alitalia, my parents went to enquire whether there was a supermarket around so that we can make some sandwiches or something.

So they went out and it took sometime before they came back, not with loafs of bread with ham or something, but with 3 pizza boxes ( and soft drinks from the supermarket called Pam)!! Yummmmm!! The pizza was so nice, that in about 10 minutes, we finished it all!

Still hungry, my mom said that the pizza shop just behind the hotel sells pasta. I followed my dad and my sister to get more pizza(2 boxes) and 2 types of pasta. The name of the pizza shop is 'Jolly Pizza'! I mean, which shop owner would call their shop that! But after eating, I guarantee that you would be 'jolly'...lolz.

The pizza isn't like how it is sold here. Like Pizza Hut, their pizzas are cooked using a deep pan. This fills you up *snaps* just like that. But in Italy, I've always heard that they can eat lots of pizzas, and now I know why because it is quite thin and crispy, and the toppings there are delicious. I would say that, "if you haven't ate pizza in Italy, you haven't ate pizza at all".

We would actually go back to 'Jolly Pizza' each night for dinner...SO DELICIOUS!!!

While we were in Rome, we went to this restaurant ( ristorante in italian), called Pastarito (http://www.pastarito.it/). The variety of pasta and pizzas on their menu is just unbelievable!! I've never seen a longer list. We each ordered a different kind of pasta for ourselves ( which was gonna be a big problem for us). The portion was HUGE!! One serving can feed, I think, around 3 people!! And we even ordered pizza!! This meal was gonna kill us. The pasta came with tongs and plates, so I presume that it was for sharing...=)

I was the last one to stop eating, as I was enjoying the different variations of pasta on the table, and the pizza as well. The pasta was well cooked, and it had something different about than what we can get here in Malaysia. I just don't know what.

We also tried Gelato. An amazing kind of ice-cream, if you can call it that. It was very soft and smooth, and it would just melt in your mouth as soon as you put it in. The one thing I like about Italians, are that they love varieties! There are much more flavours there than that of Baskin Robbins, I think more then 50 flavours of Gelato. The place where they sell gelato is called the Gelateria.

I even had the weirdest form of kebabs in my life, and it was also at Jolly Pizza. It wasn't served in bread, but it was DAMN GOOD!! It was served on a bed of lettuce and topped with their own chilli sauce. WOW!! Their chilli I can guarantee you is the best I ever had! And they were so generous with it, unlike here in Malaysia. But it is typical Italian style to serve bread, any kind, to the customers, so I used it to put my kebab in. You can definitely tell that the kebab was freshly made that day itself. It was so tender and juicy; unlike the kebabs you can get locally here, which you know isn't freshly made as they are quite dry.

Jolly Pizza may be a small shop, but the number of pizzas being delivered were much higher than that of one outlet of Pizza Hut or Domino's. They deliver like a minimum of 3 pizzas each delivery. All the ready-folded pizza boxes, which there was easily 50 of them, finished being used up and they had to take out some more boxes and start folding them. All of this was happening, while we were there during one of our dinners!! Imagine that. And that was only like within 30 minutes or so. Beat that Domino's!!

I wouldn't mind going back to Italy for a holiday and I especially miss the food there. Real Italian food should be eaten at the origin of its cuisine,...ITALY!!!

Only a person which has tried Italian food in Italy, would truly understand the greatness of it, and enjoy it to the fullest.

Ask anyone who has been to Italy, and I know that they would give you the same answer. =)


Happy Days Mate!!

Smokes everywhere...

Hey to everybody and everyone who just love to eat and also cook!
Like me, Bread Boy and Justin, the head chef!

Haha...
I am not going to post any recipe yet!

Soon, i promise!!

I just wanna post for fun... haha...

Hold on will u...

(Went to kitchen... omg!! Fire!!)
(Quickly the fire extinguisher to get rid of the fire ASAP)

Cough, cough, cough...

Sorry about that, baking cake...

I actually accidentally OVERBAKED it!

It suppose to look like this,

Unfortunately,

(Look like molten lava, don't you think?)

(So embarrased...)

LOL!

Oh well... back to square one...sigh...

~~Bread boy covered in flour~~

Penne al 'Arrabiatta

This recipe, isn't an antipasto like my previous post, the bruschetta.

Its a pasta with a tomato base, but its mix with chilli and onions to form its main base. This pasta is a bit different from most other pastas, as it is a spicy kind of pasta. It is usually served with penne or spaghetti, but differs with other likings

Its quite a simple, but not the simplest, pasta to make and to have as a meal. But since I like decorations for my food, I would put, maybe 1 or 2 fried English mushrooms or maybe even a garlic bread(this recipe, I most likely wouldn't put it up as its a secret...hehe) on the side. Roughly chopped parsley and sprinkled over the top is also another good way of 'colouring' your pasta.

But the recipe for this, I'm not gonna put up. This is because, to what i think, Malaysians prefer pasta which is creamy, because its rich in flavour and it usually fills you up till you're satisfied, but pastas like al' Arrabiatta, you have to know it to enjoy it because these kind of pasta are the 'original' kind that the italians eat.

Other examples also like, Ragu, aglio olio( i'll be posting this one soon), parmigiana and so much more.

But if you are not the average malaysian, and you want this recipe( and also because this blog isn't being visited a lot), i'll post this up upon request.

* I'll post the basics of pasta by this weekend.