Orange Roasted Chicken

All chicken photos courtesy the Bon Vivant de Roommates

Among my favorite things to make is roasted chicken, and the simplicity of it appeals to me like few other things manage. One yard bird, a couple of aromatics, and you've got yourself a knockout dinner that everyone enjoys. I made this one on a regular basis, and at a dinner party recently someone asked for the oh-so-simple recipe. Roasted chicken is very versatile; these things, your favorite things, or nothing except a little salt and pepper can be used. 

Buttermilk Truffle Popovers

Popovers, and My Cluttered Countertop

Like a lot of the food I love, popovers are forever tied to my grandma in my mind. When I was a kid, there was nothing better than getting to spend the night at her house either with my cousins or (if I was really lucky) all by myself. We would stay up late, her telling silly stories including one about a clumsy witch who repeatedly fell off her broom and busted her butt, all of us giggling until we fell asleep. The mornings were the best though. We'd get up early, and she would make a breakfast of foods we never got at home while we sipped Grandad's pineapple-orange-banana juice, one I never liked outside of their house. She would make three minute eggs with nice runny yolks, bacon in the trusty cast-iron skillet, and hot popovers slathered with butter and apple butter she'd "put up" the fall before. Surely, this was the food of gods.