na§tee
02-27-2006, 07:26 AM
sorry y'all vegetarians, but this weekend - 4 & 5 March, is roast a great british chicken weekend (http://www.britishqualitychicken.co.uk/weekend.aspx), as claimed by the, as my boyfriend eloquently put it "er.. the chicken people?" so we have vowed to make a roast and invite some friends over to enjoy it with us. my boyfriend, as you may know, doesn't live in glasgow and only visits about every two weeks so we're gonna occasion-amplify this up in the hizzzzzouse.
i seriously can't remember the last time i had a roast dinner, or for that matter a nice meal where i hosted people and actually, you know, sat down, drank a couple of bottles of wine, practised that fine lost art of conversation.
so this weekend i think i would like to implant the idea of at least hosting a meal - it doesn't have to be a roast, or a chicken, or indeed british - but just getting some people round to show them that you heart them.
i predict lots of arguments over the oven, however. we have big culinary tradition wars. how we roast/season the potatoes, whether you put an onion or a lemon or a potatoe all up in the chicken to soak up all the fat, what vegetables, what flavour gravy - whether to make the gravy from scratch, or to cop out and buy a packet, what type of stuffing. but we'll be blissing out listening to the radio and drinking some vin rouge all through it, so i'm looking forward.
maybe i will photo-document the occasion, too. we haven't figured out exactly who to invite yet [since we don't have a surplus of friends, really, and my flatmates are away] and haven't agreed how many people a big chicken feeds so i better get working on that.
roasts: (y)
i seriously can't remember the last time i had a roast dinner, or for that matter a nice meal where i hosted people and actually, you know, sat down, drank a couple of bottles of wine, practised that fine lost art of conversation.
so this weekend i think i would like to implant the idea of at least hosting a meal - it doesn't have to be a roast, or a chicken, or indeed british - but just getting some people round to show them that you heart them.
i predict lots of arguments over the oven, however. we have big culinary tradition wars. how we roast/season the potatoes, whether you put an onion or a lemon or a potatoe all up in the chicken to soak up all the fat, what vegetables, what flavour gravy - whether to make the gravy from scratch, or to cop out and buy a packet, what type of stuffing. but we'll be blissing out listening to the radio and drinking some vin rouge all through it, so i'm looking forward.
maybe i will photo-document the occasion, too. we haven't figured out exactly who to invite yet [since we don't have a surplus of friends, really, and my flatmates are away] and haven't agreed how many people a big chicken feeds so i better get working on that.
roasts: (y)