Simple Food Is What We All Need Right Now

There’s something about Simple Food that we really don’t appreciate until we look back at our gatherings or just regular family dinners and of all the foods that we crave, it’s this simple food that beckons to us.

I could use a garden design analogy here and say that if a garden were made up of plants that were meant to be highlights it would be overwhelming and not calming at all.

A Golden Elm for instance is a feature tree, meant to brighten the garden and uplift the colours with its bold and voluminous golden canopy. If the garden was full of Golden Elms it would be overpowering and not relaxing.

You see the garden needs the everyday greens of Viburnum hedges, swathes of Agapanthus or shrubbery that make the back bone and the contentment of an area. This is what makes a garden the calm and nostalgic place that we will one day look back on.

So it is the same for the Simple food that is the back bone of our eating. Simple to prepare and cook, deliciously comforting and nourishing to both the stomach and the soul.

To me, nothing says it better than a Roast Chicken meal and I am often surprised at how people regard it as this special meal, when it really is 5 mins of prep and in my simple method, takes about 1 hour to cook. Where you don’t have to do anything, except maybe make some gravy at the end.. The oven does all the work and yet a Simple Roast Chicken dinner ticks all the comfort food boxes.

Have a look at my video on how to do this delicious feast.

Recipe & Method:

Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.

On a large baking paper lined Baking Tray, place a small Chicken that’s been butterflied in half (so cut down the back bone and lay it as flat as it will go) This helps it cook quicker.

Next chop your favourite roasting veg into sizes that suit a 1 hour cook time.

For me it’s Carrots, Potatoes, Sweet Potato, Beetroot, Onion & Pumpkin.

Drizzle everything with Olive Oil and S&P.

Place in the oven for 1 hour, you can flip the veggies over half way through cooking if you like.

Serve with whatever greens you like and gravy.

It doesn’t need to be fancy or filled with herbs or spices to taste good. Sometimes you need to go with the Less is more option.

Enjoy looking like a food genius with this one. xx Cindy