Two (2) Ingredient Whole, Roasted Chicken

 

Am I 'back'?  No... not really.  I'm still pondering whether I have the time and the urge to bring An American Housewife (housewifebarbie.com) back up or not.  But in the meantime I had a couple pictures from my cellphone I could upload of our whole roasted chicken this week from dinner and thought I'd post because it is SO good and literally is just 2 ingredients.

Yes, two.

Two Ingredient Whole Roasted Chicken

1 whole chicken
Dale's Seasoning Marinade and Sauce

Place the chicken into your roasting container (pan, dish, etc) and pour over about 3/4 cup of Dale's.  Pop it into the oven and roast until done according to weight and size of your chicken. Visit the oven a few times during roasting to spoon some of the marinade/drippings from the bottom of the pan over the top of the chicken.  You can also flip your chicken over half way through cooking to get both sides browned and seasoned deeply.

 

 

 

Here is where I'm going to say you don't have to use Dale's if you don't want.  You can find it in many grocery stores, Walmart has it, even Amazon of course... but the reason I started to buy it a few years ago is I realized it tasted almost exactly like MY homemade steak marinade that I've made for years (decades now) and loved; but since it tastes like mine, I might as well just buy a big container of it and I wouldn't have to mix up my own.  

In December 2006 I included it on my site (it's actually been posted numerous times).

https://www.housewifebarbie.com/2006/12/steak-marinade.html

You can play with the amounts in it to suite your taste.  
When I first starting making this recipe it was so many years ago we still used vegetable oil and real sugar (eek!)  So for the past 2 years I've always substituted other options.  I'm not a big fan of ginger so I go really light on that one.  We don't use sugar much so I use low carb or keto options.  Also sometimes add a smidgen of worchestershire sauce sometimes, etc.  I also sometimes add hickory smoke liquid.  I can tell you I always add extra fresh, minced garlic - so healthy and so good.  Play with it. 

STEAK MARINADE (works for chicken)
(use the brands and types of ingredients you like best - and amounts)

1/3 c soy sauce, (or coconut aminos, liquid aminos, etc.)
2 T vegetable oil, (or canola oil, olive oil, avocado oil, etc.)
1+ T brown sugar (or brown sugar sweetener equivalent)
3/4 t garlic, minced, (or use garlic powder)
1 t ginger
1 t seasoned salt (Lawry's etc)
 

 

2026.... My blog's 20 year Anniversary. A rare blog post on An American Housewife - It might be time to make An American Housewife active again

It is this site's 20th Anniversary!  

If you are new here or never knew the history of the site An American Housewife... here is a quick blurb; 

The name "American Housewife" stems from an idea for a cookbook I'd always wanted to put out in the 90's and early 2000's.  I never had the funds to make it happen... but then the internet came along and the chance to have a recipe website presented itself to me. 

The name American Housewife was a natural. As for the url of the site; housewifebarbie - well, that stems from a joke that I kind of regret now.

I was a full time Mommy with three children under the age of 5. I loved cooking, baking, sewing, crafts and everything to do with babies and children. My friends dubbed me the Original Housewife Barbie... after the Barbie doll that had done everything from being an astronaut to a doctor to a teacher, but never 'just a housewife'.  

During some joking conversation one day, I was deemed the original Housewife Barbie and when I had to think of an original url for a blog in 2006, it seemed only natural to use it since it was just a personal little blog for myself and who cares?  Right?

This site is a collection of recipes I've gained over the years since I was in Junior High. Some from the 1,000 recipe books and magazines I have, some from the internet, some from friends, family members, my grandmothers old handwritten school notebook from cooking class and various other places. It's a collection of recipes that also includes those that I've made up myself for my own family.

 

This site was started in 2006 and for quite awhile was my 'part time job' and was much, much busier, bigger and had links and affiliates and ads.  Was continuously updated, had a very high ranking and had about 2 million visits when I put it in 'standby' mode to focus on a lot of things going on in our life at the time.

So many life changes in the past few years... so many big, big things.  I had to pull back all recipe posts, reviews, affiliate links, ads, regular updates, etc. as I was expending all my time and energy elsewhere by   

As we enter 2026 I was really just going to update my site with the cookie list for Christmas 2025... (I made 24 recipes this holiday season and multiple batches of many of them).  I also thought about starting the website back up again... at least a bit... when I realized upon logging in that it is now 2026 and my site was started in 2006 and OMGOSH it's my 20th Anniversary of this site!  

It might be a grand time to make it active again.