With Valentine's Day just around the corner, you might be starting to plan out a date night for the occasion. While some people love the idea of celebrating at a romantic restaurant, others prefer the intimacy of being at home. That said, if you've decided to stay home on the 14th, you don't have to resort to the same old food and drink you consume all week. Instead, consider being intentional with your food and wine pairing to highlight the date.
If you want that perfectly crispy, golden skin on a roast chicken, you've gotta make sure the bird is bone-dry before it ever hits the oven," he says. He explains that failing to remove extra surface moisture from the bird will cause it to turn to steam in the oven - which is the last thing you want when you're trying to get crackly skin.
Starting out with a unit in Boxpark, where they made their name with wings and fried chicken sandwiches, the trio expanded, opening full-service restaurants in Soho, Finsbury Park and King's Cross, as well as running a busy delivery operation. They've just added a fourth in the City, which marks an evolution for the brand. The offering has grown to include roast and grilled birds, salads and rice bowls, with Asian flavours woven into the menu.
It is a dish that is enjoyed in a wide variety of different formats globally, and because it's impressive and comforting at the same time, it never fails to be the star of the show. This maple butter roast chicken recipe, from the kitchen of recipe developer Jennine Rye, gives you a relatively low-fuss way to prepare and cook a whole chicken with mouthwatering results.
The first step in the five-day process for preparing the fatty "three-yellow" chickens is stuffing them with garlic cloves, herbs, and butter before a 24-hour brine. Portalier dries out the chickens for three days before being roasting them. The broken down chicken is served with rice that has been cooked in chicken broth and fat, a simple green salad, and a carafe of chicken jus. The chef jokes that the comforting roast dish "sounds like a good Sunday, no?"
While watching season two of "With Love, Meghan," one recipe immediately caught my eye. In the fourth episode of Meghan Markle's Netflix show, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author Samin Nosrat shows the Duchess of Sussex how to make a roast chicken and bread salad. Inspired by a dish from the iconic Zuni Café in San Francisco, the salad was packed with colorful vegetables, homemade croutons, and a passion fruit vinaigrette. It was unlike any salad I had made before, and it looked incredible.