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[quote=Anonymous]I'm very glad this forum is anonymous, because I'm embarrassed to be admitting this.

I can't cook.  We eat pretty healthy, because I can make straightforward healthy meals like grilling a piece of salmon and some vegetables and serving with boiled rice, but I don't use a lot of complex cooking methods.  Because I don't cook complex things, my kitchen is very barebones.  Not a lot of spices, or fancy ingredients, or cooking utensils.

On snowdays I like to have some "comfort food", and I have the rare opportunity to be home long enough to cook something that takes some time in the oven, but that only solves one of the issues I have which would be 1) lack of time 2) lack of skill 3) lack of ingredients 4) lack of utensils.

So in preparation for this snowday I bought a roasting chicken, sealed in a bag*.  It says all I have to do is put it in a pan (which I have) and pop it in the oven at 400 degrees for 90 minutes.  It's in there now, bag and all (this is what the directions said).

My question is, I like my chicken with lots of veggies.  Could I put some veggies on the top rack for the last little bit?  Would that turn out well?  I know my mother would roast the veggies with the chicken, but I don't think that's an option with the bag situation.  I have recipes that describe roasting vegetables but they all either require a different temperature or an ingredient I don't have.

Here's what I do have:

Baby Carrots
Onions
Potatoes
A very small number of brussell sprouts

Frozen broccoli and cauliflower

Some Italian Dressing (as a marinade?)
Some Balsamic Vinegar (the most sophisticated ingredient in my house)
Black pepper
Salt
Olive Oil

What should I do?

*Yes, I know, I am a terrible mother for serving my kids such crap.  Hence my comment above about being glad this is anonymous, and my anecdote about the salmon to prove that we don't do this every day.[/quote]

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