Swindled

Whoever said, "If it's too good to be true, it probably is." was right. Now when such situations are presented to me, I end up asking myself, "What's in it for you if I believe you." But sometimes what's in it for me is not so bad either.

So after receiving some free vacation I was swindled into getting these ChefWorld pot set. We knew we'd probably get swindled, but liking to believe we are capable of some form of objective decision-making, I want to document all the culinary creations that this household infrastructure upgrade has resulted in - I'll tag these posts with "ChefWorld". I also don't feel like doing "real work" right now. So here we go!

Roasted Chicken

So as the new year rolled in, you want to clean things out and start anew. We bought a whole organic chicken and decided to eat all the vegetables we had with it. We rinsed the chicken and skinned it - by the way which would have diappointed me as a child if you gave me chicken without the skin - and put it in the pot with all the vegetables we had in stock, that included a lot chopped up carrots. some chopped up tomoatoes, onions, and garlic. As you can see a few bay leaves in there with other spices - probably garlic powder, oregano, salt, pepper. The chicken was chillin'. Turned on the oven on medium and when it whistled, close the opening at the top and reduced the heat to low for and kept covered for 30 minutes.

Apparently when is whistles, it means that it's 170 degrees, which is the perfect temprature to cook meats and vegetables because it does so without hurting the nutritional components. The sales person cooked carrots and it tasted pretty darn good.

Results

• This combination came out awesome. I really love carrots now and I really love onions when they're cooked this way.
  

Lessons Learned

• Anything vegetable you can spare, throw it in. Everything you throw in it will come out tasting awesome.
  

Varieties

In this example we covered the chicken with potatoes, broccoli, and carrots. Awesome.