i have an organic chicken

[Heathcliffscathy]

i want to make stock out of it. and use the meat from the chicken for several meals.

any suggestions?

[Heathcliffscathy]

healthy ones!

[Carmenere]

Are you handy with a boning knife? If not I would simply roast it with lemon, garlic and rosemary. Then I would serve roast chicken, next day I would strip off all the remaining meat and make a chicken pie or chicken risotto. Use the carcass to make stock and use that as a base for soups and sauces or freeze it.

[Enid]

agree with carmenere

I would roast it, then serve roast chicken, or strip it and use the meat by:
a)risotto
b)with tagliatelle, pine nuts, parsely, rosemary
c)in a pie
d) some other pasta dish
e) minced and fried to make chicken nuggety things (rissoles)
then use the carcass for stock and keep some of the flesh back for a yummy soup

[MrsBadger]

Second Carmenere's suggestion - is exactly what I'd do.
We roast in roasting bags from Lakeland, and there's normally a good half pint of liquid in the bottom afterwards that makes a great stock starter.

[oliveoil]

There was an article in \link{http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,632-2127595.html\The Times} yesterday on 'cheap' meat.

We always buy organic/free range chicken and I am hoping that lots of idiots will stop buying it so that the price goes down (bird flu panic etc)!

[Carmenere]

Oh and what is that delicious hot spicy Thai chicken noodle soup called? That is really tasty and healthy way of using up leftover roast chicken and stock. Do a search and you will easily find a recipe.

[TwoIfBySea]

Excellent article, I may be about to shoot myself in the foot as I haven't yet bought it but that book is cheaper on The Book People site! Just don't everybody buy it until I do!