The large U.S. Turkey Day is over.
I haven’t made a turkey in years, not since I left the U.S. Entire turkeys aren’t simple to seek out right here earlier than Christmas. We don’t have fun Thanksgiving with an enormous dinner and we want ham for Christmas. I made a variety of vacation turkeys for the entire household after we lived within the U.S. and I’m completely completely satisfied to by no means do it once more.
I do, nevertheless, wish to make smaller birds. I’ve made goose for Christmas a couple of instances, however they are typically smaller and I don’t need to stuff them.
My desire is to make these little birds…. We each get crisp, brown pores and skin.
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Roast Cornish Hens
These small hens make a pleasant single-serving essential course. Every particular person will get mild and darkish meat. There’s typically a bit left over for chilly snacks the following day.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook dinner Time: 60 minutes
- Whole Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
- Class: Rooster
- Technique: Roasting
- 2 Cornish recreation hens or poussin (little chickens)
- 2 tbs olive oil
- 1 tbs lemon juice
- 1/2 (4oz, 120ml) cup pink wine
- 2 tsp Dijon-style mustard
- 2 tsp dried rosemary
- 2 tsp dried thyme
- 2 tsp dried sage
- Wash hens and pat dry with paper towels.
- Combine 1 tbs oil with lemon juice and 1 tsp of every herb.
- Divide herb combination and put half into every of the hens.
- Tie legs shut and bend wings round and below the again – so it seems to be like they’re mendacity there with their arms akimbo.
- Lay them on a rack in a shallow baking pan.
- Combine the remaining oil, herbs, mustard and pink wine and brush some on the hens.
- Put into 400F (200C).
- Bake for 50 – 60 minutes, basting each quarter-hour with wine combination, till accomplished.
Notes
I like to recommend a meat thermometer. Poultry is finished at 165F (75C).
Folding the wings below retains them from flapping and provides the hen one thing to relaxation on.
You can use a complete roasting rooster.
Diet
- Serving Dimension: 1/2 recipe
- Energy: 686
- Sugar: 0.2 g
- Sodium: 283.8 mg
- Fats: 44.3 g
- Saturated Fats: 12.3 g
- Trans Fats: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 3.4 g
- Fiber: 0.9 g
- Protein: 53.5 g
- Ldl cholesterol: 313.1 mg
Key phrases: cornish hens, roast rooster, rooster
In the event you’re feeling extra bold: Roast, Stuffed Cornish Hens
Black Friday?
It was a day. Now it looks like it’s a minimum of 2 weeks. I’ve been inundated with Black Friday offers endlessly, or so it appears.
I by no means went procuring on the standard Black Friday, aka: the day after Thanksgiving. It was an enormous deal however I’ve at all times hated procuring and actually hated procuring in crowds.
Admittedly, the web gross sales are extra tempting. And the fixed emails promoting 30 and 40 and 50 p.c off handle to get my consideration. However after 3 weeks of it I hit delete as quickly as I see the phrases.
So very many good offers on a lot stuff that I don’t want.
Not a single deal on canine toys to exchange those that Hector, teething monster that he’s, destroys day by day.
