Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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roast chicken

  • Sailor

    Sailor

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    Last night we went back to Sailor with our pals Jenny and Andy who you know and love from Dinner: A Love Story. The food at Sailor is so out-of-this-world, I have a new distraction when I’m writing during the day. When I need a break, I just go on to the Sailor website and…

  • My Roast Chicken Secrets Revealed

    My Roast Chicken Secrets Revealed

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    A year or two ago, I got rid of my roasting pan. Not because I’m anti-roasting pan, or because I needed the space, but because I realized that my roasting pan had a non-stick surface and that I’d been scratching it up with a metal spatula over the years and that there was a teensy,…

  • Chickened Vegetable Soup

    Chickened Vegetable Soup

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    Let us all acknowledge the truth about roast chicken: it’s not about the chicken, it’s about the vegetables. That truth dawned on me long ago when I used to line a roasting pan with red potatoes sliced in half, all surrounding a well-seasoned chicken; the rendered chicken fat would coat the potatoes, they’d get all…

  • Mastering The Art of Roast Chicken

    Mastering The Art of Roast Chicken

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    Here was the deal: my favorite roast chicken recipe is this one from Thomas Keller. (Sidebar: I’m currently in San Francisco and last night I ate at Zuni, and as I was leaving the bathroom who did I lock eyes with? Thomas Keller. Turns out he goes to the bathroom too; food gods are just…

  • Chicken Liver Toast & The Secret To A Good Chicken Salad

    Chicken Liver Toast & The Secret To A Good Chicken Salad

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    For as long as I’ve been roasting chickens (and I roast chickens all the time) I’ve been throwing away the liver that comes stuffed inside, along with the giblets, because–well–I don’t know: am I supposed to cook and eat that thing? Well, yes. I mean not all the time. But they don’t put it in…

  • Pasta with Roast Chicken, Currants and Pine Nuts* (*Unless You Can’t Afford Them)

    Pasta with Roast Chicken, Currants and Pine Nuts* (*Unless You Can’t Afford Them)

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    Two of my favorite dinners in the world are roast chicken and pasta. In fact, if I had a death sentence looming over my head, I’d ask to be executed twice so I could have two last meals, one a roast chicken, the other a big plate of pasta. Luckily, that’s no longer an issue…

  • Chicken Fat Fried Potatoes

    Chicken Fat Fried Potatoes

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    It occurred to me last Thursday that one of the best recipes in my repertoire isn’t even something that I consider a recipe. It’s a thing that I’ve done for years and years–I talked about it in my video “How To Roast a Chicken”–and, yet, when I look at it by itself, separate from the…

  • Thomas Keller’s Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables

    Thomas Keller’s Roast Chicken with Root Vegetables

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    Roasting a chicken is a very personal thing; those of us who are regular chicken roasters (and, in the winter, roasting a chicken is almost a weekly act for me) know what we like. For me, that’s a combination of fennel seeds, cayenne pepper, and kosher salt on the outside of the skin and thyme…

  • The River Cottage Roast Chicken

    The River Cottage Roast Chicken

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    My go-to roast chicken recipe, that one from Chez Panisse (here’s a video I made on how to make it), is such a gut bomb of fat–and fat from just the chicken itself–that any roast chicken recipe that requires the addition of more fat (butter, olive oil) usually provokes my inner Richard Simmons who bursts…