Evelyn’s Air Fried Whole Roast Chicken with a Twist

Hello, Darlings

In these trying times of worldwide COVID-19, unemployment, civil unrest, broken promises, confused and mixed messages, we all need something to lighten our spirits. And although I am retired and generally a stay at home housewife these days, I too feel the oppression of all that is happening here and around the world. However, to relieve some of the stress of what is happening, I am finding added joy in working on my websites, gardening, DIY projects, and cooking. 

 

This being said below is my recipe for roasting a whole chicken upright in a Big Boss air fryer.  Time-wise is about equal roasting in an oven, but minus the oven heat that fills the house, and since our Florida days have topped 100 degrees in some areas, the less heat in the house the better. 

I hope you enjoy this recipe and find the cooking method useful, and as a bonus, I have added the recipe for my special chicken rub.

Evelyn’s Air FriedWhole Roast Chicken with a Twist

Description: This is a recipe for a Big Boss Air Fryer in which the extender is used and takes up to an hour to bake. 

                                                      Ingredients

Generic Photo

One 4-6 Lb Whole Fryer Chicken

¼ cup olive oil, melted margarine or butter

Salt

My Chicken Rub

Directions

1. Preheat Big Boss air fryer to 460°.
2. Rinse chicken in and out, then pat dry
3. Using oil, margarine, or butter spread all over chicken inside and out.
4. Spread a generous amount of  My Chicken Rub over the outside and inside of the chicken
5. Sprinkle salt on the inside and outside of the chicken
6. Place chicken upside down on an upright poultry rack
7. Add a little more of the My Chicken Rub over the areas touched when placing the chicken on the upright poultry rack.
8. Place racked chicken in the Big Boss air fryer
9. After baking for 20 to 30-minutes, remove chicken from Big Boss and reverse it on the poultry rack so that it is breast side up. The amount of baking time depends on the size of the chicken.
10.  Return racked chicken to Big Boss, replace extender.
11. Checking frequently, bake for the remaining 20 to 30-minutes or until no blood runs and the chicken is juicy. Skin will be crispy but can be moistened with a little butter.
12. Let chicken rest for at least 10 minutes before removing from upright poultry rack. To remove the rack twist it to one side or the other and pull it out.
13. Cut chicken in half or quarters 
14. Serve with the main dish.

My Chicken Rub

Measure out the following ingredients as listed in a small airtight jar. Shake well. You can also double or triple the amount for additional and future use in a larger jar.

• 3 tablespoons Za'atar Powder

• 2 teaspoon Garlic Powder

• 1 teaspoon butcher-grade black pepper

  The photo above is generic. I am using it now because the chicken I roasted using this method was so good that we ate it before I thought of writing down the recipe.  I will replace the one above with one of my own after I roast another chicken. In addition, if you want to try roasting the chicken without rotating it be my quest. I just like roasting chicken breast down first and then turning it upright.

Until next time,

Chow Darlings and stay well out there.

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While we are waiting for the city’s environmental department to deliver the mulch that we ordered, I took this picture of Jetta sitting among the saints. She is an old lady now, all eight years old, which is 48 in human years. She uses to be very shy but because of Sam, she is more vocal and visible.

 

The statue on the left is Saint Francis of Assisi, who the patron saint of animals and the statue on the right is Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Naturally, I intend to create a shade garden out of this. See the photos and the film below.

Most of what you see here is cleared, and whatever leaves and small branches that have fallen since we place our mulch order in late May can be easily removed before its delivery. The sunlight is limited and filtered but there is enough of it for some flowering plants. The shaded area is plentiful for the many shade plants I have today.

Once the garden is complete it will be dedicated as a Mary Garden, so check back later for the finished project.

Until then,

Chow Darlings.

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The Pushback Against The COVID 19 Lockdown … How Unwise Is That?

This article is inspired by Alyse Stanley and Daniel Uhlfelder article “Grim Reaper Educates Florida Beachgoers On the Benefits of Social Distancing”.

Despite the fact, many want to return to the days when wearing masks, social distancing, and the stay-at-home order was not affecting lives around the world, there are still some folks that take unthinkable risks with their lives and those of the public.

Sure all of us want to return to the normal days, but the rising number of COVID 19 positive cases and death are going unreported as frequently than in the beginning, they are rising daily and in some parts of the world, those numbers are tripling. Yet, our lawmakers want to throw us out into the world to face an unseen enemy to frankly put prevent a recession we were under before COVID 19 upended the world, turns into a depression to rival or surpass the Depression of the 1920s. 

Although the president's office can order businesses to remain open or reopen, there is no guarantee that the general public will venture out in mass to shop, or that people that are not sick will be safe from the virus.

Simply put. People are scared.

If it was not necessary, they probably would not go out any further than their mailboxes.

Should people return to work too soon given the rate of increase in the numbers of reported cases, they risk becoming ill on the job, and what about the rate of re-infection. I stress the number of reported cases as no one knows the numbers of unreported cases. It has been mention; however, no data has been presented showing that it is prudent to return to any normal activities. Still, it is understandable that some people given their financial situation have no other choice. So, what is the right thing to do?

To date, there is no cure, healthcare workers are succumbing to the virus, and there is not enough protective gear for them all or the general public, schooling is being done in a whole new way, many families and businesses are facing ruin, the food shortage is becoming apparent because workers are becoming sick and in general some people are overstocking. Because it is strongly suspected (by brave souls who did the research) that COVID 19 has been around for about two decades and that little was done about it back then, today not everyone is being tested.

As for the testing centers, there are not enough of them. They are placed too far for those without means of transportation, and none are intercity. Mail-in self-test kits beg the question of where to drop off such tests? Sadly, and faced with all these problems, the discovery of a miracle cure is ideal, but the likelihood of it happening any time soon is slight. 

Even with all the uncertainties and lack of guarantees, lawmakers are flip-flopping with public lives against the safeguards they created by asking and some cases ordering people to rush back into the fray. They know the why and how of these safeguards but the when and where to lower or totally remove them is contentious. They also know that the cases of COVID 19 are still rising and they know that that the government is breaking promises of financial support, suggesting deadly and unsafe remedies, which is frankly unthinkable, and yet social and work safeguards are being lifted in the “so-called testing areas” of the country.

I may have overstressed my point a bit but what this all comes down to is that using one’s judgment in this  COVID 19 age will probably save one’s life.

Think and don’t simply react. Consider that returning home or entering a shop from kicking sand up along the shoreline that you ran the risk of caring home something more than a tan.