It was definitely too hot to be cooking this but I was craving it.
The chicken is really just an essential ingredient needed to flavor the potatoes. The potatoes are the star of the dish.
I have been hoarding some Parmesan Reggiano for about 13 years and decided today was time to use some of it.
Cost per person: $1.86
A king who traveled incognito in medieval times was once captured, discovered because he casually ordered a roasted chicken at an inn
Peasants owning a chicken was not uncommon, steady supply of eggs. But chicken meat after it dies is too valuable not to sell to some local lord.
Anyway just a cool story about how Chicken isn’t peasant food. Dish looks tasty though.
Chickens were rather uncommon until fairly recently. That’s why Hoover’s “a chicken in every pot” campaign slogan was so notable.
But if you had chickens you had roosters and you ate them. They may have be uncommon in the city but the country folk always had a few roos each year they needed to remove from the population so they could ensure good genetics, save food for the layer hens and stop the roos from harming the hens.
I have had to get rid of a fair number of roos myself. Gyoza is my favorite way to do that.