Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

vhalla1478

Evening Everyone,

This is not so much a recipe, just a better way of cooking a cheap supermarket chicken to extract as much flavour as possible from it and also to keep it moist. You can tuck in (under the breast skin) whatever extra herbs and spices that you have/like.

All you do is make cuts at the leg joints and insert slices of lemon; put the rest of the lemon into the cavity. Season with salt and pepper, rub with olive oil and mixed herbs etc. Place in a deep ovenproof container with a lid and add 2-3 tablespoons of water. Put into a moderately hot oven around 180 degrees for an hour. Remove lid, drain off the wonderful chicken juices and continue cooking for approx. half an hour, depending on the size of the chicken. Ensure that the chicken is cooked through by piercing its thighs - the juices should run clear. This method ensures you have a very tender chicken with wonderful stock which can be thickened for gravy and/or used for soups etc.

Viv xx

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FUDDLE I hope you and the family had a super weekend camping, what weather you've had, hasn't it been wonderful? Lyn xxx.

fuddle

Welcome home JackieO


Lyn you don't 'alf know how to get a bargain. Super weekend away, thank you. We walked from the camp site to see the Cerne Abbas Giant. Cerne Abbas itself is sleepy and beautiful. We were given a murder mystery trail (like Cluedo really) when we checked onto the site so saw all the little place had to offer in terms of whitewash buildings, climbing roses, thatch dwellings and old, old pubs (where we had a treat and I had faggots ) The girls have ran about the camping green with their skipping ropes and made daisy chains. We have eaten too much in terms of baked beans but enjoyed our weekend break. I took my book from the Library - Alys Fowler, Thrifty Gardener. The weather has been lovely. Batteries charged, memories forged, foto's taken and feel good that it was done without splurging the cash.


We're planning on getting the tent out again next month.

monnagran

This is an experiment to see if I can finally get a post to 'take'. Can anyone tell me how to get back to the forum change when you get to the end of the posts? I seem to have to go all round the houses. There must be a simple way that I am missing.
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monnagran

EUREKA!!!!!!
I'm back to the original format. I don't know how it happened but I am crossing my fingers that it is here to stay. I have my dear 'Forum Jump' back so please disregard my last post.

I'm so happy! (skips away singing merrily.)


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Welcome back MONNA hope you and the Rev had a smashing holiday, Lyn xxx

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Good Morning chums,beautiful June morning here in Kent. I have the hospital this afternoon and I am hoping they will take some stitches out as they are 'pulling' a bit.Plus it has to be re-dressed.
Fingers crossed for this Friday's meet if possible.
My lovely Mick the Gardener is coming this morning to replace the steps down to the garden with a ramp for me.The steps are crumbling away and are getting to dangerous to keep so a ramp will be safer.He is also replacing the handrails as well is they are quite past repair My brother put them up around 14 years ago so they owe me nothing and safety is paramount when you get old and a wee bit impaired on you pins :):)

Right I'm going to have some cereal for breakfast and after the gardener has arrived about 8.00 I shall have a wander over to the bank to sort out something .Last night on the way home we stopped off at a petrol station and I bought DD £10.00 of petrol or her little car and looking at my C/card today (the human element doesn't work at the petrol station after 6.00 on a Sunday ) it seems we were only charged £1.00 instead,I want to rectify the mistake in case the boys in blue turn up to arrest me :):)Plus I don't like to think of a business being short changed.She inputted the right amount as well
Cheers chums have a great monday
JackieO xxx

corrieflash

Morning Jackie, sometimes when using pumps like that it goes through as a £1 to make sure there are funds there and then it changes it later. I have noticed this before with my debit card so naybe credit cards do the same
Kathleen x

bargainhunterss

So sorry to hear about Docky Mrs LW xx

fuddle

Hello stranger monnagran you continue to skip away merrily but please be careful, I've already helped an older lady up off the cobbles this morning, bust nose and all. She was really rather embarrassed but was able to get up herself so all is ok. I have experienced the like in people's homes, and often, but it's a bizarre experience when it happens in public. It's as if people were relieved that I was there on my knees with her so they didn't have to, standing on the periphery asking did we need an ambulance or "is she ok?" I had bought a huge French stick as well, it kept getting in the blooming way! She was ok and stroked my arm to say thank you. Still, a bit of a shock at 9.15am


So, today is housework day. I feel the need to get tidy, clean and organised. The thing with camping is it doesn't matter how light you try to be with the kit you always have umpteen things to store away again, loads of clothes and blankets to wash etc. Thank goodness it's a drying day... a beautiful one at that!


DH is going to look at making me an arbour for in the garden. It won't be anything fancy and will be constructed by 2by1 timbers (one of which is on the allotment) but it will be a structure that I can grow flowers up against and wrap with solar lighting. A second hand table and chair underneath. Somewhere I can relax early AM and into the PM.


Food today will be grilled chicken breast sliced on a bed of salad and some buttered French stick. Just about to marinade the chicken in brown sugar, oil, soy sauce and vinegar.


Also need to get to the allotment. It will need a water. I am going to harvest a bit of rhubarb too as fancy giving rhubarb cordial a try. I've not made that before and we're a bit crumbled out. Have a lovely MMM day everyone.