Simple but tasty - roast chicken with roasted garlic, along with a side salad made with english cucumber, halved grape tomatoes - all topped off with homemade creamy balsamic dressing.
Whole Roasting Chicken - 5'ish pounds - rinse and pat dry. Put one or two whole
bulbs of fresh garlic in the cavity (just remove the outer, paper-y layer on the garlic). Coat outside of chicken with olive oil, sprinkle on some seasoning salt or your favourite spices, and roast in a 350F oven for two to two and a half hours. Delish. The fresh garlic roasts inside the bird and gives a nice mild 'roasted garlic' flavour to the chicken.
Chop up some english cucumber, and rinse and halve some grape tomatoes. This is the 'salad'. Mix up some 'creamy balsamic dressing' - found from this fantastic recipe - with the one exception being that I *skip* the artificial sweetener. The dressing actually tastes better without any sweetener at all:
http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/2...c-dressing.html
Drizzle the 'creamy balsamic' dressing atop the cucumber and tomato and even on the garlic roasted chicken - really good
That dressing is very good - and not just for cucumber salad, as per the recipe - good on all kindsa stuff. Gluten and dairy-free too