Getting rid of old junk: simple oven-baked chicken

Get rid of old junk, my horoscope said, while I was sniffing away in hanky after hanky. So I looked at the squash that had been on my kitchen counter from before Christmas, cut up a pumpkin, collected whatever winter had left in the herb patch outside, and stuffed a chicken with that. In the chicken went lemon thyme and sage, and a big piece of fresh ginger. Just in case.

Simple oven-baked chicken

Cooking method from Françoise Bernard: bake chicken on its side

1 chicken
2-3 onions
olive oil
salt, pepper,
1 squash
1 small pumpkin
fresh herbs

Preheat the oven at 200 °C.

Rinse the chicken, coat it with pepper and salt, stuff it with herbs and ginger. Drizzle it with olive oil.

Put the chicken on its side in the oven pan, and put the whole onions around it. Put in the oven. In the middle of cooking time, turn the chicken on the other side. In the middle of cooking time, also add the squash and pumpkin, roughly chopped.

I had a chicken weighing 1,6 kg - this needed about 20-25' more than one hour.

Right after this feast, my taste buds went on holiday for three days. Morale: don't even try to cook or eat out then.