Sexy Roast Chicken Photoshoot

A couple of days ago i had the chance to cook a whole chicken. You can find them for anywhere between 3-4 pounds and theres enough meat on them for leftovers to make a chicken Caesar salad or even a simple sandwich. For my chicken i rubbed butter with herbs underneath the skin so that it could keep the meat inside nice and moist and make the skin nice and crunchy. I also stuffed my chicken with a whole onion for flavour and the spices i used for the rest of the chicken were thyme,dry bay leaves, salt, black pepper and paprika . I left my chicken to roast with all its juices and some baby carrots in the oven for about 1 hour and 30 minutes.Simple ,cheap and easy cooking that any student can handle and makes for great left over food . For extra flavour you can add some garlic to the chicken and drizzle it with some whit wine (and yes people alcohol can be used in food , its not only there for drunken nights out ;p) and lemon juice while its being cooked.

Pan fried Salmon with Sun dried tomatoes and Meat balls alongside a Jacket Potato

So for today's lunch , i had pan-fried salmon and meatballs alongside a cheesy jacket potato. For the jacket potato its as simple as just washing your everyday potato, giving it a few good jabs (pierce it) , and sticking it in the microwave for 5-6 minutes at full blast but it really depends on your microwave and size of your potato and when its done just load it up with cheese and stick it in the microwave for a couple more seconds to really get it to melt. For the salmon i just seasoned it with salt,mixed herbs,pepper, some lemon juice and then tossed it on to a sizzling pan with some olive oil in it. I pan fried it for 2-3 minutes on each side till it was nice and crispy and finished it off with a drizzle of white wine and there you have it. Salmon can be quite expensive in Glasgow , especially for a city right next to the ocean , but there are cheap alternatives in frozen form in shops like lidl and tescos which is way more ideal for students. I got my salmon stakes for about 2-3 pounds at lidl.

Home made Caesar Chicken Salad with Crispy Bacon and Grilled Fresh Corn

Recipe for home made Caesar salad dressing is you blend together : barely boiled egg, 2 cloves of garlic( i would suggest even less cause mine turned out quite spicy) , 1/4 cup olive oil and lemon juice, some fresh cream and any type of grated cheese . Grilled some fresh corn in the oven and then just got a knife and slid it down each side of the corn. Roasted the chicken for about an hour and a half  till the skin was crispy. mixed all of this along with some finely chopped crispy bacon and  some big iceberg lettuce leaves and small heirloom tomatoes and voila! there you have it. Delish !!!