Roast Chicken

For those that saw my earlier post, you'll know that we had to dispatch one of our cockerels who had starting crowing loudly and irritating the neighbours. Whilst I felt bad about it, I also felt out of respect for something we'd raised we should eat him. Otherwise it would have seemed a waste of a life.
So we had roast chicken last night. Well, I cooked roast chicken and I really tried to eat it but I'm sorry I just couldn't. It didn't seem right. Even my husband wasn't keen and my daughter refused point blank to even try it.  We have three other cockerels, so when their time comes we'll donate them to a less fussy friend.
One thing that really took me aback though was how different the meat was to what we've been used to. I never buy meat from the supermarket, only a good quality butcher. However our free range bird was much gamier in flavour and the meat much darker. I wasn't expecting that and think that was part of what put me off.
It was an interesting experiment but I'm just going to stick to enjoying lovely fresh eggs from now on!

Now I wouldn't have had a problem ...... so delicious    but the best plan is to put them in the freezer for a few months and by the time they've been jumbled around with all the other stuff you've completely forgotten who was who.

Just don't put their names on the pack 

.."don't put the names on the pack"

Hilarious, thank you that did make me laugh.