Thursday, September 30, 2010

Who says you have to wait for Thanksgiving to stuff a bird!?!

Well, it's Fall, the weather is starting to cool off here in Texas and it's also that lovely time of the year when EVERYONE comes down with some sort of yucky bug!

We here in the Davis house hold have a head cold and what sounds more comforting then an early Thanksgiving meal, well close enough to it that is ;)

Tonight I am making my daughter's favorite meal.A whole Roasted, Stuffed Chicken, homemade mashed potatoes, cheese and broccoli rice, baked beans, brown gravy and sweet dinner rolls.
Can you say " YUM YUM!"



I tried something a little different with the stuffing for the bird tonight.
I had a few Everything Bagels left over from the weekend so I decided to use them as my bread for the dressing. I add 1/2 a yellow onion, 3 stocks of chives, cut up, 1/3 cup of melted butter, 1/2 a cup of chicken stock and 2 and 1/2 of the bagels cut up and all mixed together then stuff a 5 bl. chicken with all of it.
I also mixed 1 stick of butter with garlic, salt and pepper and stuffed it under the skin of the chicken breast.



Cook the chicken for about 2 1/2 hours at 350ยบ or until golden.

I can't think of a better way then this to comfort and relax a family with head colds.

YUM YUM and CHEERS!