IT's CHICKEN and potatoes!

MOM's BAKED CHICKEN for those busy, hardworking teenagers:

 INGREDIENTS: chicken breasts (bone in, skin on) as many as you want, flour, dried tarragon, butter

 Preheat oven to 350. place about a cup of flour in a bowl or better yet, a zip lock bag. pat dry chicken breasts, sprinkle salt onto chicken. throw chicken in flour and coat chicken pieces - tap off excess - make a huge mess of it. 


place chicken, breast side up, on a metal pan that's been sprayed with oil. sprinkle some tarragon on top (if you're really going wild, sprinkle a little paprika as well). cut up some butter and dab on 2 or 3 dabs of butter onto the top of each breast..maybe a tad more salt. Bake for an hour or until golden brown. DONE!

Serve with:

 FABULOUS ROASTED POTATOES:

 Ingredients: new potatoes or small white potatoes, rosemary (dried is good), lemon, garlic, olive oil Preheat oven (I find anything between 350 and 360 is good) halve potatoes or quarter if they're kind of big.

Mix together in a gigantic bowl (it'll get messy otherwise):  about 1/2 cup olive oil, smashed up garlic (take a butter knife and pound onto peeled cloves - I like a lot, like 5 cloves - and a big squeeze of lemon (watch out for those seeds). crumble up a good amount of rosemary in your fingers and throw that in too.

 Now, toss in potatoes and stir around till they're well-coated. pour potatoes onto a cookie sheet with a rim - making sure most-not all- are cut side down (good for crispiness). (you can dip some bread into the oily bowl if you're starving - yum)
sprinkle on kosher salt and some ground pepper. Bake for about an hour - same as chicken - until golden or when you can't stand waiting any longer. Sprinkle on more lemon and some chopped parsley if you want to look like a real chef.