Oven-Roasted Chicken, With Roasted Garlic And French Bread - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 whole chicken
1/2 teaspoon rosemary
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/2 teaspoon sage
4 heads garlic (in skins)
salt and pepper
4 -6 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup chicken broth
crusty French bread

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400.
Wash and dry chicken, and remove giblets.
Baste (or rub) whole chicken with olive oil.
Mix salt and pepper to taste, and all other spices, in small bowl, and then rub over entire chicken (leave a small amount of spice mixture remaining).
Put leftover spice mixture, and 4 indiviudal garlic cloves, inside cavity of chicken.
Place chicken in large roasting pan (without rack).
Take apart remaining garlic bulbs (leaving skins on) and place garlic cloves all around chicken.
Pour chicken broth over all.
Cover with foil and bake for 1 hour, then remove cover, and bake for 35 to 40 mins, until chicken is browned.
Remove chicken from oven and let cool for a few minutes.
Carve chicken, while heating up french bread (if you like your bread warmed).
Serve chicken pieces and french bread, with roasted garlic cloves.
Squeeze roasted garlic (which will squeeze nicely right out of the skins) onto slices of french bread and/or onto chicken pieces, as you eat it (we love to squeeze garlic right onto our chicken, as well as onto the bread).