With the pace of life being so frenetic these days, it seems like most of my recent years have been nourished (I use the term loosely) by bags of frozen food or semi-fast food. While I feel okay about trips to Panera, with their fresh baked bread and organic options for the kids, I have to face facts: there are about 10,000 too many french fries in my family's past.
As a mom who was working full time, running a household full time, and trying to be a full time mom (yes, I know, it's simply not possible), dinner time often got put on the back burner--or, rather, not on any burner at all; we ate a quick bite out or microwaved something. These days life's pace is a little saner--not slow, I am still crazy busy, but I do have time to throw something in the oven while I work on my book and do other things.
While shopping the other day I saw something I hadn't noticed in many years--a simple whole chicken. This is one of the easiest things to prepare, provided you have time, and it's nutritious and counts, in my book, as comfort food. I bought an all-natural chicken with a little pop-up timer; to prep it I simply washed it, added some sea salt, pepper, and bay and parsley leaves, and popped it in the oven for a couple of hours. Of course, I also basted it with real butter every half our or so. I steamed some broccoli and roasted some potatoes and voila! a real dinner. It was delicious, nourishing to the spirit and body, and, wonder of wonders, the Kidz ate it.
Ahhhh, happiness.
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