Roast Chicken

Mmmmmmm roast chicken. A Label Anglaise chicken from our local butcher, roasted and served with roast potatoes, runner beans, savoy cabbage and carrots. And those strange things on the top left of the picture are jerusalem artichokes; they look deep fried but they were done with the potatoes. And gravy of course. Mmmmm gravy.

The chicken was the largest we’ve had for ages – just over 2kg. So there is a lot of it left for lunches and also dinner tomorrow evening. Will see what we can do with it. There was loads of gravy because I poured almost half a bottle of wine into it in order to use it up, but that unbalanced it rather and by the time I’d added enough stock and water to dilute the wine and make it taste like gravy, we had more than would fit in our gravy jug. It pained me to pour it away afterwards, it but had to be done.