yeah, I always forget about cooking with meat. I like cooking for others and that almost always consists of my vegetarian/vegan friends. My roommate rarely eats anything besides frozen pizza or frozen mac & cheese. Roasting a chicken sounds good, though. Maybe I'll do that for dinner tonight. Thanks for the help, everyone!

I need to eat more raw foods. My poor body is just sluggish. Maybe I'll do a cleanse this week.

Cool, you got a roasting pan right? You can also use some of the drippings to make chicken noodle soup. Whatever you cook, cook like you're cooking for four, and then have a plan as to what you're gonna do for the leftovers.

just make sure you stuff that chicken like i told you.

I don't think it's a proper roasting pan, but it's a deep, thick 9X11 pan.

I made a Jamie Oliver recipe for roasted chicken a couple of years ago, but had problems when it came to cooking time. When I buy a whole chicken, will the package tell me how long it should be cooked? Is there a standard "for this size, cook ___ hours"?

get you a copy of the joy of cooking.
it full of basic info you need for general cooking.
it's the stain-soaked bible of my kitchen.

We go every two weeks for the basics, and run in for little things if we need them.

We keep a big jar of minced garlic, bag of onions, a red onion, couple red and green peppers, carton of mushrooms, various meat in the fridge. It doesn't take alot. For example, i'll buy a whole chicken for 4 bucks, brown some lump italian sausage mix it with some cinammon apples (apples, butter, cinammon, brown sugar), combine it with some stove top, stuff the chicken and roast it. Boil some potatotes, add some butter and milk and mash. Steam some asparagus. You've got a great meal for about $10-12 that you can keep eating off of. Then thinking ahead, you can use the chicken in some pasta, or sandwiches for lunch. You can shred the chicken for tacos or enchiladas (make your own sauce, no can)ned. Or make chicken salad with halved red seedless grapes and almonds and a tiny bit of mayo, or make some jambalaya with the chicken and some hot sausage and shrimp. So you can go a bunch of ways with that chicken that you roasted (which is so friggin easy to do. rub it with olive oil, bake at @ 275 for an hour, take the roasting lid off, pour off some of the drippings for gravy and turn it up to 325 for 15-20 to brown. If you're living by yourself, you can eat and cook off of that for a good 3-5 days and have a lot of variety with just a bit more effort. By the time you go out, order some food and sit down and eat it, you can have a cheap good as hell meal at home.

I only eat free range seagulls.