/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I actually eat with other people, so it would be awkward/uncouth to take a picture of my autistic meals.

>>4964279

you'll move out of your parent's house one day. just hang in there, anon.

>>4964283
b-but I love my mama...

>>4964279

i come to a "food & cooking" image board and post an image of some "food" i "cooked" and you're accusing ME of being the autist?

So, this is a rather crap pic, but the dinner itself was glorious. It's pear cider roasted chicken an veg, on top of buttermilk mashed potatoes, with a pear cider - buttermilk gravy. It was amazingly good.

>>4964325
>pear cider roasted

please tell me how to replicate this

>>4964325
Forgot to say, that's the plate I dished for my bro, and he only likes breast meat. I had pretty much the exact same plating, but I had the wing and leg quarter on top instead of breast meat.

>>4964330

breast meat sucks. especially boneless.

>>4964327
Oh, that's easy.
You need to find some pear cider, first. Any decent liquor or beverage store should have some. (If not, apple cider would taste just as good) Then, clean your chicken as usual before roasting, and set in the roasting pan while you prep the seasonings. Melt some butter, and add an equal amount of pear cider to it and mix well. Then combine some garlic, thyme, sage, black pepper and salt. Salt the interior of the chicken, and then stuff the interior with some cut onion and a cut up pear. Rub the chicken down with the cider-butter mixture, and then rub down with the spice blend. Then put all the prepped veggies around the chicken in the roasting pan and pour about a cup of pear cider in the bottom of the pan. Preheat the oven to 425 to start, and cook the covered chicken for 15 minutes. Then turn down the heat to 320 and cook for 1 - 1 1/2 hours (depending on the size of the chicken) or until a meat thermometer inserted reads 170F.
Remove from oven, and transfer chicken and veg to a plate while you use the drippings to make the gravy. Bring the dripping to a high simmer, and add a little chopped shallot and more cider, and let it reduce for about 10 minutes. Then, add 2 teaspoons of cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon of cold water. Bring to boil and cook about 1 minute until thickened. Add around 3/4 cup of buttermilk, and season with salt and pepper to taste. Meanwhile, you should be making the mashed potatoes. That's pretty much it, and then just plate that sucker and NOM.

>>4964350
Well, it wasn't boneless, it was cut off of the whole bird. But yeah, I prefer dark meat myself. Thighs are my favorite.

>>4964355
Thanks! Sounds good, and easy.

Roasted cauliflower, garbanzos, onion, carrot, garlic, black pepper, fennel. Burn Baby Burn hot sauce. Seasoned with Lagunitas while in the pan.

>>4964426

niiiiiice

Some chicken sausage gumbo