A blog by Cameron and Shannon

Today I’m going to tell you how to make your fast food experience more awesome. I have compiled a list of 5 tips — mine and others — that will inevitably enhance your chances of walking out of a corporate megafranchise more than just marginally satisfied with your culinary experience.

“But Cameron! My fast food experience is already more awesome,” you say, eyes wide with confusion, anticipation, and animalistic grease-lust. Well, my friend, no, it’s not. You’re wrong. It is, at best, a faded spectre — a mere muddled reflection of true awesome.

Don’t fight it. Click Read More and shut your chalupa-hole.

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I didn’t originally set out to roast a chicken for this meal - I set out to make an Anthony Bourdain recipe of some sort. But let’s review: I’m a decidedly average (some may say “ridiculously unexperienced”) cook, while Bourdain is a 30-year veteran of French cuisine — and in his Les Halles cookbook, he isn’t about to cut you any slack. Ever. And he’ll call you impolite names every three pages. It’s rough.

Nevertheless, since I haven’t dropped the $35 necessary for his book yet, I googled “Bourdain recipe” and found Nick Kindelsperger’s entertaining Poulet Roti experience on The Paupered Chef (which, by the way, appears to be a real cooking blog, check it out). Hooray! A reasonably simple recipe with reasonably simple ingredients!

So, I set to it. Time to roast my first chicken!

Mise in place, sort of.

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