Ideas for meal tonight - have a chicken - going shopping to other stuff later...

[Hulababy]

We have friends coming for dinner tonight. Relaxed affair so nothing major needed.

DD and the other little girl will probably eat earlier on as DD will be hungry from school and her friend normally eats earlier than us anyway.

Then the rest of us will eat a bit later on whilst the girls are playing.

I have a lovely fresh chicken I got from the farm shop a couple of days ago. So will be using this for DH and our friends. Thinking just roast chicken but any ideas to make it more tasty? I often do the JO one with lemon and parma ham, with loads of butter. They like more simple type dishes than anything very spicy, etc IIRR. Any suggestions?

For me (as don't eat meat) I have a piece of cod I could use. I often forget to do anything special for me, so suggestions here very good!!!

And to serve with both???

to serve with, you could do some roasted potatoes, roast butternut squash and courgettes.

Can I come?

you can shove an apple up the chicken's bum and cover it with olive oil, honey, paprika and salt and pepper ... add a handful of dried apricots if you want

For the cod i would cover with a thin layer of black olive tapenade and a couple of anchovies and grill or wrap in foil and bake

Now I have a few courgettes in the fridge, so that is good.

Weather really horrid at monent so think I will nip to Waitrose for the extras, rather than the farm shop today. So butternut squash is possibility now. Love roasts