Last night, my parents braved the blustery weather to come over for dinner. I made Lemony Roast Chicken with Mushy Pea-Tatoes and opened a bottle of Huarpe (one of my favorite wines), and after dinner we watched Face/Off (also one of my faves).

I’m…sub-par at chicken carving, so I decided to do a little research on how to best hack up that thing up there. This article on how to carve a chicken is fantastic, and includes pictures. I recommend using kitchen shears for leg-removal purposes; I can never get the legs to separate in the right place without them.