Cast Iron Skillet Roasted Chicken and Potatoes

So last week when I went to the store, they had whole chickens buy one get TWO free! I decided not to wonder “why on earth are they tryin’ to get rid of these birds so fast…?” and instead thought “what a fantastic deal! I’ll take three!” Save that money, ya know.

So usually when I do this, I make the whole chicken in the crock-pot.  It’s easy and I can just do it in the morning and come home to a tender, fully cooked chicken! However, on the day that I actually wanted to make the chicken, morning Meaghan did not remember to do the crock-pot part at all…mornings are hard.  But I got home relatively early that day, so I decided to just try my hand at roasting it in the oven!  I figured my cast iron would work perfectly for this…which then made me realize that I could probably also just cook potatoes in there too…YAS.

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Spicy (kind of) Roasted Potatoes with Sriracha Sour Cream Dipping Sauce

So this past week, my grocery store had pork shoulders buy one get TWO FREE.  Yasss. So on Monday I put a shoulder in my slow cooker with a few spices and when I came home it was ready to go and just fell apart *sigh*.  I mixed in some BBQ sauce and it was all set. So then I was on to my side dishes.  I felt like this meal was really just asking for some crispy roasted potato wedges 🙂

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