Let’s see what they thought of our May cover girl’s family-inspired dishes.

While we’ve definitely eaten roasted chicken before, we’d never actually roasted a whole chicken.

If you’re a newbie to that kind of cooking, we’re just warning you now.

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There will be pictures.

It always seemed like such a great thing to know how to do – roast a chicken.

We envisioned ourselves serving a perfectly browned chicken to a table full ofdinner partyguests.

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We were already brainstorming all the meals we could make from leftovers!

We used a free-range, certified organic chicken from our local grocery store.

It’s easy to forget this when you just see sliced chicken, etc.

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We couldn’t stop looking in the oven to see what it looked like.

We wanted it to be like a “magazine chicken”…perfectly golden.

It looked pretty good !

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We were determined not to waste anything!

We’ll also experiment with more spices – maybe a curry spice rub or a garlic lime rub.

Here’s one bone we DIDN’T toss into the stock pot… make a wish!

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Our Gwyneth posts are quickly coming to a close – it’s gone by so quickly!

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