Roast chicken is my favorite comfort foods. I usually make it for our family at least twice a week. It’s healthy, delicious, everyone in our house loves it, there’s always plenty left over for lunch the next day and it only takes me a few minutes to prepare it for cooking. Still, as any family will tell you, eating the same thing night after night — even your favorite, most comforting thing — can get boring.

That’s why we need to get creative. My advice for this recipe is to double it so you have plenty of leftovers to use in new dishes for the rest of the week. The recipes I’m going to post in the coming days utilize this Simple Roast Chicken as an ingredient. The goal is to make cooking easier and more efficient for you while also providing more mealtime variety, and less boredom, for your family. You’ll be able to whip up all these dinners in a snap because you already have plenty of the main ingredient cooked and on hand. Check out weelicious.com for follow-up recipes!

Simple Roast Chicken (Serves 4-6)

Instructions:

• 1 4 Lb Chicken
• 1/2 Small Lemon, cut in quarters
• 2 Garlic Cloves, peeled and smashed with the side of a knife
• 1 Tsp Salt
• 1 Tsp Olive Oil

Directions:

• 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• 2. Line a sided sheet tray with foil.
• 3. Rinse the chickens well and pat dry.
• 4. Place chicken on the sheet tray, tuck the wings behind the chickens back.
• 5. Rub the chickens with olive oil, season inside and out with salt and tuck garlic and lemon quarters inside the chicken.
• 6. Bake for 1 hour.
• 7. Remove from oven and allow chicken to rest for 10 minutes.
• 8. Serve.

Bio:  I started modeling and traveling the world at a very young age, tasting and being turned onto foods that were exciting and exotic to my Kentucky bred palette. When I was living in Paris, Milan, New York and traveling to places like Tokyo, Morocco and Sydney, I became obsessed with learning about local cuisine. I later went to culinary school. Then I became a parent. Parents’ lives are busy, but we also want our kids to have the best, so I started weelicious.com. The recipes are delicious, nutritious, and easy, but most important, they’re fast. I make cooking fun for both of us. I prop my son in his high chair and let him be part of the process. Who knows, maybe Kenya will be a great chef someday. Ahh… a mother’s dream.