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What Is the Best Roast Chicken Recipe: A Comparison from Eleven Experts
It’s Thursday. I can guess two things are going to happen for you between now and Monday.
First, you are going to go shopping.
Second, you are going to buy a chicken.
But what will you do with it? And what do you wish you could do with it?
Sometimes reality swamps ambition. You can have that chicken on your kitchen counter and you want to do something good, something different. You wonder how Thomas Keller would do it. Or Alan Ducasse. Or one of the other star chefs. You might even have their books on hand, but do you have an afternoon to sit and compare and decide?
You don’t have to. There is a great website call greenmarketrecipes.com. And buried there is this page:
http://greenmarketrecipes.com/poultry/best_roast_chicken_recipes.htm
There you will find a table with the roasted chicken techniques from 11 very famous, very good sources. Mr. Keller and Monsieur Ducasse and Tom Colicchio and other very talented sources.
The table describes the prep work, the cooking technique, and some after cooking comments and ideas. There is detail here, but not too much. In a cup of coffee, you can read, consider, and decide on how that chicken is going to come out. Maybe your mom’s technique is still the one you need to use. Or, maybe, you can explore new territory, new worlds.
I always wondered what they did on Star Trek. I mean they are out there for years, there is no chicken ranch on the ship, so they need to fashion chicken from the molecule up. I, I just don’t know if I would ever volunteer for Star Fleet Command with that culinary future before me.
Fortunately, the current president has effectively canceled the United States manned space program so none of us will be faced with such a difficult choice. Of course, when the aliens land and ask why the hell we have not shown adventuresome spirit, I don’t know what we’re gonna say. We’ll just probably chicken out.
Photo Collaging Apps on an iPad: Recommended Tools for You
How did I do that collage? My iPad.
The iPad has spawned an incredibly diverse new industry of low-cost apps for the iPad that do photo editing and collaging. I do mean low cost. The program I used for this collage cost $1.99.
There are dozens of programs out there, too many to easily decide which to use. Here are the ones I use on a regular basis:
- Layout
- InstaFrame
- Photo Mess
- Collage
- Arc Frame
- Pic Joiner
And here are some apps I have used but no longer do. Some of these were limited in features, some have been outclassed by the apps above.
- Picture Frames
- Nostalgio
- Frametastic
- InstapicFrames
- aPhoto
- MyPics
- Linea
- Pic Stitch
Of course, you will certainly try and test on your own. New apps appear weekly, so a year from now, I may have a whole new list of favorites. But for now, I hope you’ll use my list of favorites as way to get started.
I am a computer geek. The iPad has literally changed my daily routine and the ability to do such rich photo editing and organization make it a vital tool for any blogger.
