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Dinner Last Night
Slow Roasted Garlic and Lemon Chicken from Nigella Lawson's wonderful book Forever Summer
Instead of using the cut up chicken recommended, I used 8 bone in, skin on chicken thighs. Chicken thighs are great for slow cooking--the dark meat will not dry out the way breast meat does sometimes--and they are perfectly sized for serving. They go on sale a lot and I try to keep a package or two in the fridge at all times.
I also added 2 instead of 1 heads of garlic. Have I mentioned the Man and garlic before?
The Man of the House likes garlic.
I mean he really, really likes garlic.
He really, really, really, LIKES garlic.
He LIKES it cooked, but he LOVES it raw.
Unfortunately for him (but perhaps fortunately for the rest of us) breathing raw garlic fumes is socially acceptable during working hours. So Friday night, out comes the garlic. And come Saturday morning, open the door of our house, and it's like being in an Italian restaurant.....
I love garlic too, but it has to be cooked, and in this recipe the garlic gets wonderfully sweet.
We served it with rice to spoon the juices onto and it was wonderful. Definitely one I'll be making again.
