Well I thought I should acknowledge Valentines Day in some way this year, and I feel a post-Valentines blog is a good way to do this. I am not a fan of the day in general, it is over commercialised and makes perfectly nice people feel bad about themselves. Of course if you decided to spend most of your day hiding you could avoid all the sickening loveliness of it all, but unfortunately for me I had to leave the comfort of inside and walk along the streets. Soooooo many couples!

I did however manage to get something really useful out of the day - I invented Lemon Thyme Chicken. Oh yes, this is a recipe straight from the inner mind workings of Sarin and it is über good! Anyways I know a blog that is just a recipe is noting to do with gaming, the Frag Dolls, or well anything really ... But it is drool-all-down-your-front good, and if you can’t cook yourself take it to your mother and demand that she makes it! 

Lemon Thyme Chicken (aka Sarin Chicken ... )

1 medium chicken
6 slices of bacon
3 slices of bread (or the equivalent in breadcrumbs)
75g butter
½ lemon
4 cloves garlic
Good handful of lemon thyme
3 sprigs rosemary
Salt and pepper
1 small onion.

Melt the butter in a bowl.
Chop the bread into small breadcrumb bits and add to the butter.
Roughly chop the herbs and garlic, and add.
Grate the zest of the lemon and add, also squeeze in the juice of the half lemon.
Chop 2 slices of the bacon and add.
Season with a little salt and pepper and stir it all together.

Take your chicken and peel open the skin above the neck area, this will allow you to open up the skin over the breast meat. Push all the stuffing into this cavity and make sure it lies fairly evenly over the crown of the chicken (between the skin and the meat). Place a piece of bacon over each side of the crown (where you have just stuffed), and one piece over each leg.

Peel a small onion and put it in the chicken cavity (the bit inside the rib cage).  This lets onion-ey steam out as it cooks and keeps the chicken really moist whilst adding to the flavour.

Place in a roasting dish and cover with tin foil. Roast at 180°C for 1 hour 50 minutes. Check the chicken is cooked by putting a skewer into the breast and making sure the juices that come out are clear. If the juices are pink cook the chicken for a little longer.

Have it with gravy, roast potatoes and veg, just like a normal non-Sarin roast chicken!

Happy cooking all ye gamers of the world.