Butternut Squash warning, roasted chicken

[Guest guest]

I cooked a butternut squash recently. I cooked it on a flat cookie

sheet, not realizing that it leaks liquid while cooking, and the liquid

went all over the bottom on my oven.

Always use a cookie sheet with an edge for butternut squash!

So yesterday I cleaned up the mess the butternut squash made in my oven.

Then I went to a doctor's appt, and flipping through a magazine, found a

recipe that I could use. The nurse nicely copied the recipe for me.

I made the recipe today - roasted herbed chicken. It required a 450

degree oven and a preheated roasting pan (i.e., place it in the oven for

15 minutes before placing the chicken in it). I didn't have a roasting

pan so I used the bottom of my broiler pan. The chicken splatted fat all

over the oven at that temperature and the grease smoked. My house became

hazy from the smoke! Fortunately it is a warm day so I could open up all

the windows. Now my oven needs to be cleaned again!

Plus the roasting pan warped!

Oh well! You win some and lose some.

The chicken was good - you know how normally the chicken breast meat can

be dry? It wasn't. But I'm still not ever making that recipe again!

Carolyn

SCD - 2.5 weeks, and learning new recipes every day!

[Guest guest]

Carolyn,

Go buy a glass 9x13 dish.

Make the squash in that. Put about an inch of water in the bottom and

then place the squash face down in the water. It will come out very

soft and tender.

Also a roaster is a pan with a LID. Just go and get a chicken or

turkey roaster. Then, you can make the recipe as often as you'd like

since it was so tasty.

Jody

mom to -7 and -9

SCD 1/03