Max Bell’s ‘Hockey Chicken’

Max Bell’s ‘Hockey Chicken’
As prepared by his Sous Chef, Ned Bell

This is a very simple recipe for a tender, moist, sweet and salty bird.
Serves 2-6 ppl
Ingredients:
1 Whole Chicken, Organic if possible. 3-4 lbs
1 lemon, cut in half
1 can of soda water
1 spring of thyme and 1 spring of rosemary
3 cloves garlic, smashed in the skin
3 tbsp honey
3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp sea salt
Method:
Pre heat your oven to 350 degrees.
In the cavity of the chicken stuff the cut lemon, herbs, garlic and then open can of soda water.
Stand the chicken up in a deep casserole insert or dish.
Bake chicken for 1 hour.
Remove from oven, cover with tin foil and let rest for 20 minutes.
For the sauce, remove the can from the cavity of the chicken, place the juices from the chicken and the soda water in a pot and simmer for 10 minutes until reduced, and a bit syrupy.
Taste, adjust the seasoning and squeeze the lemon from the bird in the sauce.

To Serve:
-Saute some green and purple Kale in a good amount of olive oil, season with sea salt and cracked black pepper
-Smash some roasted Yams with olive oil and seasoning
-Serve yams and kale underneath the chicken on a family style platter. Pour the honey and balsamic vinegar on top of the chicken and devour.
Crusty bread is great to slop up all the juices….
Enjoy!
 

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Ned’s Power Cookie

Yield: 24 cookies (using 1/3 cup measuring cup or size 16 scoop)

Ingredients:

2 ¼ cups Quick cooking oats

2 cups Spelt flour (or Buckwheat Flour)

1 cup Sunflower seeds

¾ cup + 2 tbsp Pumpkin seeds

½ cup Shredded unsweetened coconut

¼ cup Flax seeds (or Hemp Seeds)

1 cup Brown Sugar (coarse) or cane sugar

1 tbsp Ground Cinnamon

2 ¼ tsp Kosher or sea salt

1 ¾ cups Dark Chocolate Chips

1 ¼ cups Dried BC Cranberries (dried BC Blueberries also work really well)

¼ cup Water

¼ cup Molasses

¾ cup Canola oil (Flax oil or Hemp seed oil work as well)

1 cup Soy milk (vanilla or plain)

Method:

Preheat oven to 350’F Line baking sheets with parchment paper

Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl

Combine all the wet ingredients, and add to the dry ingredients

Mix together until just combined. Scoop onto the baking sheets, gently flatten cookies.

Bake for approx 18 to 22 minutes

(until lightly browned, do not overcook, they are best moist and chewy)