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JulieGeorgiana

wannabee_in_credit wrote: »

Can you slow cook a chicken?
Quite often do that with pork and beef joints. I'm curious but don't want to mess it up trying...:cool:

Yes, but I'm not sure how.

Other thing about roasting is if you are worried about undercooking or burning, you can foil it to stop burning and keep cooking. Testing is with a skewer until juices run clear.

Also if you do roast in bag, you can buy the the bags seperatly.

wannabee_in_credit

Thanks again lovely people...
Bread items now in freezer with all meat stuff.

monnagran

Have been following with interest the comments about fussy children. Go on - you know you are all longing for my twopennoth.

You all just want to thank your lucky stars that you don't have a child like I was.
My poor Mum. I absolutely couldn't eat some things, and my mother, bless her, took me to the doctor because she was so worried. He took one look at my little fat legs, (they've never changed!) my round face and my chubby arms and told her to take me back when I grew thin and listless, and in the meantime to let me eat what I liked. Fortunately some of the things I liked were healthy so she did just that. Just as well really because I would have starved rather than have certain foods in my mouth. By the time I was grown up I was eating anything and far too much of it!

I followed the same pattern with my own children. I had one who would eat absolutely anything but only in tiny amounts - he was a grazer. The other seemed to exist on bran flakes and scrambled egg on toast. Funnily enough the first one has grown fussier as he has grown older and the second one is into healthy eating with a vengeance and eats anything.

I do think that there is a danger of building up a huge resistance to certain foods if children are coerced into eating them. Most children, if the family's food is cheerfully eaten by everyone else, will join in eventually.
My husband, who was brought up very strictly, thought that the children should be made to eat everything put down in front of them and said so constantly. One day I cooked lamb, mashed potatoes, and runner beans followed by rice pudding. All foods that he could not bear. As we all tucked into ours he pushed his plate away saying, "I'm not eating this," at which we all chorused, "Then you should be made to."
It was the last time we heard that phrase in our house.

Just for interest, I have always been disgustingly healthy, never spent a night in hospital, get flu once every 40 years (1959 and 1999) and have not had a cold for the last 12 years. The boys were 12 and 13 before they caught their first cold, never had throat or ear infections or any other childhood illnesses. Having said that, the youngest nearly died at age 6 because of undiagnosed peritonitis and the eldest had a collapsed lung in his 30s. But nothing to do with diet.

I'm wittering on now. Time to go to bed.

tigerfeet2006

wannabee_in_credit wrote: »

Can you slow cook a chicken?
Quite often do that with pork and beef joints. I'm curious but don't want to mess it up trying...:cool:

I stuff my chicken with quartered lemons, get slices of garlic and push under the skin, grind sea salt and pepper over the skin and sprinkle herbs on it.

Pop it in the SC and turn it on low for the day. No need to add liquid at all. As Cat said you won't get a standard roast but will be able to get all the meat off. So you can have 'roast' one day, then have something like a pie, risotto or curry for another day. The juice and bones can be made into stock (add to pie or risotto) or soup.

wannabee_in_credit

Thanks for your post monnagran... very interesting indeed. As I mentioned, my sister was bulimic - but she now has one of the healthiest diets of anyone I've ever met. I just hope my dd follows suit (eta with the healthy diet, not the bulimia). She seems confused between not liking a food and not wanting a food. For example, I did egg and beans on toast for dinner tonight. She left approx a quarter slice of bread, a couple of spoons of beans and a bit of egg white and informed me that she 'didn't like it'. Told her it was ok to leave it if she'd had enough but not to ask for pudding. She asked a few mins later, and was told no.
We plod on...