Tonight's dinner

[inamuddle1]

Tonight for dinner I'm cooking roast chicken. I want to make as much as possible, for easy reheat for dinner for the next couple of days. I'm skint.

1 Large Chicken
Potatoes
1 bag of carrots
Onions
Tomatoes
Garlic
Bay Leafs
Dajon Mustard
Chicken Jelly stock

I'm going to roast the chicken on its own with some jelly stock, bay leafs and garlic, also sprinkle the chicken skin with salt to make it crispy. In another roasting tin I'm going to roast all the chopped veg & tomatoes, also with bay leaf, garlic, dajon mustard and chicken jelly stock.

Not rocket science I know but this dinner has been strategically planned on a budget.

[LyndaB]

I'm also doing roast chicken tonight, there will be three of us. It's a medium/large chicken which I bought from my lovely local butcher. There will be one compete side of breast meat which I am going to use tomorrow. I shall cut it into two pieces, then top with a mixture of ham and leeks, then the whole thing will be wrapped in thinly rolled puff pastry and baked quickly in a very hot oven. Any other smaller bits of meat will be picked off and mixed with leftover gravy and veg, then put in the freezer to make into a pie in a week or two.
Then the frame will be boiled to make stock or soup. Waste not want not!

[Phakameza]

Hi LyndaB, you seem to be covering all the uses there are for a chicken. I even leave the bones and bits out for the foxes and hedgehogs. I live in a fairly rural town and have foxes etc that visit.