Live on £4000 for a year - Part 2

redglass_2

Please can i have some advice from a more experienced cook? I'm thawing out a chicken to roast tomorrow - the idea is to put it on, go for a walk with my friends and come back to lunch. I'm doing it in my normal oven, inside a chicken brick so it doesn't dry out. My question is, can i roast it slowly, a bit like doing it in a slow cooker, inside the brick? (I do have a slow cooker but the bird is too big and I want to avoid breaking it up if poss.) How low / how long can i leave it?

mumzyof2

redglass - my grandma says you can cook it like that but she doesnt know how long because she doesnt know the size of the chicken.

redglass_2

Thanks, Mumzy. It's 1.7 kilos - what does your gran think?
Normally I'd just do a teeny-weeny one in the slow-cooker and never worry about timing, or I'd do a big one at normal speed in the oven and be there to keep an eye on it (cos the oven's a bit temperamental) but I'm trying to get the best of both worlds here.

mumzyof2

How long are you away for, she says.
She says she doesnt really know as she cooks it untill its ready (im thinking well yeah thats what most people do..tyou aint going to get it out raw )

shaz_mum_of__2

I would think a low oven about gas 3 would take about 3 hrs (i always put a little liquid in my roasting tin so it part steams/roasts and then use the stock for gravy

Not sure if you can add water to brick


Shaz

redglass_2

Hi, back again, Mumzy. We're out for about 2-3 hours, not sure because it's a cross-country walk and depends on wet ground, etc. I'm beginning to think I'll just cut the bl**dy thing up and put it in the slow-cooker and save all of us a shedload of trouble - your gran included! Don't know why I'm making life so complicated, it's not as if I haven't got enough to be thinking of already. But please tell your gran thanks very much, and thanks to you, too.

redglass_2

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

I would think a low oven about gas 3 would take about 3 hrs (i always put a little liquid in my roasting tin so it part steams/roasts and then use the stock for gravy

Thanks Shaz, that might do it. Like i said to Mumzy, I'm beginning to think I'm just being a silly girl here, making stuff more complex than it needs to be. So what if there isn't crispy skin, my mates will forgive me. :rolleyes:

I see you've got £4k stoozed. Respect! - haven't started yet but stoozing is lined up as a future project.

mumzyof2

redgalss have you tried on the grocery challenge thread?

redglass_2

I will do, good idea.

bails

Hi everyone, had a lovely day with Marru today wandering round her college looking at loads of animals with the monkey who is very cute and beautiful and a little 'determined' when she wants to be Am now exhausted, been lying here searching for land but unless I want to buy in the Orkneys it seems impossible :rolleyes: Anyone ever looked for/bought land and know where to start with it please?
Glad you had a lovely birthday SophiesMum and were spoilt. Hope you all have a lovely evening, see you tomorrow when I'm more awake x