Delia's roast chicken

As I write this post we're letting a roast chicken rest before carving. We normally like to do whole chickens on the grill but I'm a bit low on propane so we opted to roast the fowl instead. We usually follow the Delia Smith recipe for this, hence it's Delia's chicken.

Fellow Brits will have a love/hate relationship with Delia Smith (dubbed "The Sainted Delia" by 'er Indoors) just like we do. She's an enormously popular chef back in Blighty, where she's been making TV shows and writing books since well before God was a teenager. Her recipes work well but she can be very annoying and a bit self important (one of her books is called "How to Cook"). As you can see our copy of her culinary bible has seen some use. 'er Indoors thinks I'm being unkind - she says that Delia taught her how to cook a roast dinner - but she definitely gets on my wick (Delia that is).