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Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sat Apr 08, 06 7:21 pm Post subject: Chicken for Dinner..

...tomorrow!

Walking past a butchers today when doing a shop and noticed they had started to stock local free range birds. We've had a chicken already this week but I couldn't resist it.

Picture doesn't do it justice, but it's muscular without being bloated and the leg muscles are huge. The skin is tight, dry and strong. It looks like it's going to be one of the tastiest chickens I've ever tried.

In fact, I wish I had a picture of a supermarket organic chicken to show the difference between the two. Organic might have been fed the right food but you just know from looking that this bird has spent it's life outdoors on a varied and healthy diet.

Downside is that we have to economise, so the saturday night treat is now lentil and bacon soup. Still that's one less bag of pulses to lurk in the cupboard!

Stacey

Joined: 18 Jul 2005
Posts: 8380
Location: Kernow

Posted: Sat Apr 08, 06 8:58 pm Post subject:
Phwoar! That's a mighty fine looking bird. Does he know what breed they are?

crackapple

Joined: 19 Jun 2005
Posts: 204
Location: teeside

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 06 9:45 am Post subject:
i was down at the farmers market on saturday and there was one stall selling free range chickens for between �15 and �25 each (is this normal?) they did not look as good as that one.

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 06 10:13 am Post subject:
that does seam a bit steep, �9-�13 is more usual hereabouts (Beds) and they look pretty much like the one in the piccy. Once tasted I can't see why anyone would choose to go back to the bland/fatty/watery/sad supermarket variety, "organic" or not!

RosemaryJane

Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 06 10:59 am Post subject:
�9 - �13 is about what we pay in Herfordshire at the local farm and they are HUGE and delicious

Joey

Joined: 03 Nov 2004
Posts: 191

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 8:10 am Post subject:
Well?? What was it like then?

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
Posts: 14210
Location: Somewhere

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 8:36 am Post subject:

crackapple wrote:

i was down at the farmers market on saturday and there was one stall selling free range chickens for between �15 and �25 each (is this normal?) they did not look as good as that one.

I pay about �5-�7 for mine; that's between 3-5lbs weight.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 8:39 am Post subject:

RosemaryJane wrote:

�9 - �13 is about what we pay in Herfordshire at the local farm and they are HUGE and delicious

Which farm, for good chicken hertfordshire isn't that far (we are in cambridge)

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 8:41 am Post subject:
Looks like a mighty fine chicken to me. It's the colour that gives it away as much as anything - that and the firmness of the flesh. How was it?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 9:44 am Post subject:

It was bloody lovely!

The skin was the finest part, sorry to gross you all out but it was ripped off and devoured my me and the kids as the bird came out of the oven. I cooked the bird simply with butter, seasoning, and some lemon and garlic inside. Poured some white wine into the tray whilst cooking for a simple gravy.

The meat had more bite to it without being stringy, yet it held a lot of succulence.

Oh, it cost me �9.20.

RosemaryJane

Joined: 16 Jan 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Hertfordshire

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 11:36 am Post subject:

Which farm, for good chicken hertfordshire isn't that far (we are in cambridge)[/quote]

Can't remember the name at the moment ... we used to buy from him at the farmers market but he recently opened the farm shop so we go there now... its in a small village called Hare Street just East of Buntingford so just down the A10 from you.. turn left at the T junction as you come into the village from Buntingford and its on your left.
He also does ducks (more meat less fat than your average supermarket one) and beef, and also venison, but thats coming to an end now.

Rosemary

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 7:13 pm Post subject:

ros wrote:

that does seam a bit steep, �9-�13 is more usual hereabouts (Beds) and they look pretty much like the one in the piccy

Fancy revealing your source? I'm only just over the border into bucks, and could do with a decent source of local-er chickens. At the moment, mine all come mail order, because I can't find anything good enough locally. It's welfare I'm concerned about mostly (although I won't buy them if they taste rubbish either!)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46359
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 06 7:16 pm Post subject:
yum . plump . yum .

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