Oh, what a beautiful mooorning, oh what a beautiful day! I’ve got a whole corn-fed chiicken, and I’m a-roastin’ away!

Yes, there is now chicken of a delicious nature in my home. My mom swung by Hayward’s Grocery and picked up a whole free-ranger so that it would soften the blow when she dumped a load of work on me on my day off, lol. Well, she was right, it did!

We’ve got it roasting up in our brand new, cheapie Aroma roaster thing-it right now. I wish we had some oil and a useable USB so I could take a pic of it, because I’m always a little *too* proud of my poultry.

Laota and I got our very first order from Schwan’s a couple of days ago, and man was it worth the money! First of all, frozen and pre-prepared food isn’t my thing, but with my busy schedual and no transportation ( it’s freezing out there! ), it’s harder and harder for me to go to the grocery storey, because I don’t want to walk a few miles in freezing weather, and if you’ve ever been to Missouri you know the smaller towns don’t have sidewalks most of the time, so you’re going mostly uphill right in the narrow road being passed by jerks who don’t care if they hit you with their pick-up trucks, all just to buy some chicken or milk. Plus, I’m finding it hard to even find time to pack my bento, which I adore doing.

So this is a nice alternative. When Laota and I get off work, it only takes about 10 minutes for us to heat up a meal with main course, side dish and veggie and it cuts down on mess so we don’t spend quite as much time with dishes. They even gave us a free 2 and a half pound tray of sweet and sour chicken with pineapple and peppers over rice because we’re new customers. How cool is that?