Garlic Chicken with Orange-Lime Juice and Zupa

I'm craving for a piece of roast chicken with a different flavour. Trying to find chicken pieces today with their skin still on is as frustrating as finding your cupboards full of expired seasonings. Who decided to rip off the skin? People were frying chicken with skin for centuries and some health nut decided to set a new standard. I say "Leave the skins on the chickens, but debone them properly". Let the health nuts remove their own skin.  And when did they stop selling oranges individually? I just went to Safeway.  Mind you I am in Calgary,  I just wanted one orange.  Nope had to buy a whole bag.  Mind you they are South African oranges and they are delicious. So this was a good ending.

2 chicken breasts with skin on and backs attached.
4 thighs with skin on
1 orange
2 limes
1/2 cup canola oil
4 cloves garlic
salt and pepper

1 onion
2 carrots
2 potatoes
1 cup cooked noodle spirals or macaroni
1 tsp. chicken broth powder(Knorr's)
salt and pepper to taste
2 stalks celery with leaves
6 cups water


Debone chicken and save backs and uneeded bones leaving a bit of meat on them.
Put bones in a pot with 6 cups water, chicken broth powder and salt and pepper.
Simmer for an hour. Remove chicken bones and meat. Set aside and cool. I left enough meat on the bones that I had about 3/4 cup meat pieces. Cook macaroni in seperate pot and set aside drained. Cook veggies in chicken broth until tender about 30 minues.  Salt and pepper to taste and when ready to eat add chicken pieces and desired macaroni.

While bones are cookin' grate the zest of 2 limes and 1 orange.  Put in a bowl and add juice from the orange and 1 lime. Smash or dice 3 cloves garlic into 1/2 cup canola oil and just before marinating, mix the oil and citrus parts.  Marinate your chicken pieces for 30 minutes. Lay chicken piecs on a wire rack in a foiled oven pan and drizzle some marinade over top.  I grated a little more garlic from 1 clove over each piece of chicken.  Set oven at 350 degrees and roast for 60 minutes.

I suppose a rice or pasta dish would compliment this more but  I had mashed potatoes, green salad and cream corn.

The soup is for tomorrow.  Great idea? No bones wasted and some zupa.