Roast Chicken

Saturday night we had some friends over for a roast chicken dinner.  I woke up ready to make my special rub, and I have to say I had a kitchen blunder that made me think I should go on that Worst Cooks in America show.  I had bought parsley (or what I thought was parsley) at the store a few days earlier and took it out to chop it with the rest of my ingredients.  I kept thinking to myself and actually said out loud at one point, "This doesn't smell like parsley."  I added it to my mixture of butter, lemon zest, onion powder, garlic, salt, and pepper, rubbed it ALL over the chicken (inside the cavity, under the skin, you name it, I put it there).  Then I decided it would be a good idea to look at the so called parsley.  It was cilantro!  I hate cilantro.  Needless to say I let this ruin my whole day.  Rob tried to scrape the cilantro off as best he could and then recommended I just buy another chicken if it was going to make me that upset.  I just really don't like serving something I know will be bad to my friends.  Eventually I went out and bought parsley, remade the rub, washed my chicken, and started over.  It turned out good even though I was sure I tasted some cilantro in there.


This is one recipe I actually made up myself and I think that it is pretty good.  The lemon zest really freshens it up.  I just eyeball the ingredients, mix them all together, and rub it all over the chicken making sure to get it under the skin.

Ingredients:
butter
onion powder
PARSLEY
lemon zest
garlic
salt
pepper