Stuffing and Roasting a Whole Chicken in the Oven

I bought a couple whole chickens from the store and I've never roasted or stuffed a chicken before so I decided to give it a go. I looked up a couple sites online for some basic directions and found helpful Roast Chicken and Stuffing for a stuffing recipe and helpwithcooking.com for very good directions for roasting. I changed a few things and here's how it went.

My Stuffing Recipe

2 Tbsp. butter

1 small onion, diced

1 clove garlic, minced

2 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped

3 slices bread, cut in cubes

1 egg, beaten

1/3 cup milk

salt and pepper

Melt the butter in a skillet. 

 Add the onion and saute.

 Add the garlic and continue sautéing.

 Add the parsley.

 Add the bread and continue cooking. I used homemade whole wheat bread.

 Beat the egg and mix the milk in with it.

 Then add the milk/egg mixture to the stuffing.

 Mix in and continue cooking until eggs are cooked. Salt and pepper it.

 I rinsed the chicken off in cold water and dried it off.

 Coat the chicken with olive oil and stuff the stuffing into the chicken.

 Here's the chicken, stuffed and oiled.

 I scrubbed 7 small potatoes and put them in too as well as 2 peeled and cut carrots.

 Ready for the oven. I preheated the oven to 425' F, put the lid on the roasting pan and put it in the oven. After 15 minutes, I turned the oven down to 375' F.

 Another 15 minutes later, I took the chicken out of the oven and basted the chicken, potatoes and carrots with the juices from the bottom of the pan. I also salt and peppered everything.

 Every 1/2 hour I basted it all again.

After cooking a full two hours total, the chicken was fully cooked and crispy on the outside. Looks and smells delicious!