Garlic Lemon Rosemary Chicken

Thursday already? I am so behind!  Good thing Alyssa at Cooking from a SAHM is to my rescue with another guest post!

Enjoy,

Sheri

 

Hello Everyone,

I can not believe Thursday is here already. This Thursday I decided to share with you my Rosemary Garlic Lemon Chicken w/ vegetables. It was my first recipe in my new to me Electric Roaster oven. It is such a handy thing to have. We found it at a yard sale for $5 and it has never been used. :-) It is a Rival 16 quart. It is so nice that I can make a whole chicken or even leg quarters without even having to turn the oven on.  This recipe is really good, fresh tasting, and easy.  Now you can use this same recipe and put it in the oven... Since the weather is getting cooler here slowly, I am excited about having my oven on :-) I really hope that you enjoy this recipe.



 

Garlic, Rosemary Lemon Chicken

3 Leg quarters (you can do this same thing on a whole chicken)

1 sprig of Rosemary

Minced Garlic ( enough to spread on chicken, and stuff in skin)

Salt and Pepper to taste

1/2 Tsp of Lemon juice on each chicken

1 Vadalia Onion chopped

4 stocks of celery chopped

5 Carrots chopped( I'd cut up more)

 

I started by cutting up all your veggies. Then I stripped all the rosemary off the stems. I chopped them small. Put all those in a bowls. Set them aside. Take your chicken and take a knife. Slit the skin open a bit. Take your finger and stick it in the skin and open the skin up a bit. Then stuff it with garlic. Making sure garlic is spread everywhere in the skin. Take more minced garlic and rub it on the top of the chicken. Sprinkle with the chopped rosemary. Put it in a pan. Salt and pepper to taste.  Take your chopped veggies and put them over the chicken. Pour about 3/4 Cup of water. Pour 1/2 tsp of Lemon juice on each chicken. Cover. Bake 350 until done and skin is browned. Make sure veggies are tender.

Grilled Chicken Tostados

Happy Cinco de Mayo to all of you!  I love Mexican food so much but hate to go out for it today because our usual restaurant that never has a wait to sit down becomes a complete zoo.  So, of course, I decided on a special treat at home. I did have to do some planning because I wanted fresh tortillas and I hadn't yet gotten around to ordering a tortilla press.  Up until now, please don't laugh or shake your head, I was rolling them out by hand.  Let me tell you, that gets old really, really fast so I went back to buying them at the store.  So ridiculous for something that has 3 ingredients, but it was what I did.  No more.  Tortilla press in hand, I made tortillas yesterday.  If you don't know the recipe, it is ridiculously easy.  2 cups masa flour, 1 cup water, 1/4 t salt.  Mix until soft dough forms and separate into 14 or so balls and press them into tortillas.  Cook each tortilla on each side for about 3-5 minutes and you're done.  I'm sure it could become more complicated if necessary for different flavors, etc, but that's what I went with.  I stored them in the fridge overnight and went to work making plans to use them as deliciously as possible!

I decided that to top my tortilla shells, I would layer guacamole, pico de gallo, shredded chicken and cheese.  Baking seemed like the easy choice for cooking, but then I spied the grill.  I put the shells on a cookie sheet, layered the ingredients on top and put them in the grill until the cheese melted down and coated everything.  It was a beautiful mess I couldn't wait to bit into!

But I did hold the hubby off long enough to snap a few pictures.  And, finally, it was time to eat!!  They really were delicious and small enough that you didn't feel badly at all about heading back for seconds.  I only wish I'd had a margarita in my hand while I was eating it because it just felt like it deserved that kind of attention to detail.

I hope you are enjoying your day as much as we are here.  We had a beautiful bike ride last night and then headed out to the trails for my first run since the "marathon incident" and the foot felt pretty darn good.   I was excited!  I wish my legs hadn't been so spent from the biking but there's always another day.  Tonight's date night at a restaurant I've been dying to try so there's lots to look forward to...oh, and my new obsession with Starbucks Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappucino will again be fed at "frappy hour" when the drinks are half price.  I am not a frappucino person, instead usually opting for an espresso marked with foam but this drink is an awesome dessert!