To cook a chicken on Christmas day?

[StarsUponThars]

I can buy a higher welfare chicken for less £ than a lower welfare turkey. And it will be lovely.

We have a free range chicken every year. This year we are getting a turkey crown but I'm convinced it won't be as moist or tasty as chicken. Don't know why I agreed to it haha !

I've was laughed at last night for making my own stuffing!! MIL "you can buy instant stuff for 50p" yadda yadda...?

I I meant! Oh and shes kicking off about having chicken for Christmas lunch as well...Dairylea on toast it is then!!

YANBU

Large chicken and a bit of beef for us. We all hate turkey.

I've got a big organic chicken and I'm really looking forward to Christmas dinner!

Pistletoe, I always make my own stuffing. The basic ingredients aren't that expensive. Bread, onion, salt and pepper, herbs (we grow our own) and for Christmas we add chestnuts and a bit of bacon.

I have just picked up my chicken from the butcher. The free range chickens were all enormous this year so they did me a special price, I had ordered a 5lb one and got an almost 7lb one for £22.99! Almost what I paid last year for the 5lb one, it looks as though it was corn fed too. I am very happy.

Thanks, girly. I've made cornbread stuffing and munched half of it already and, erm, may make another...just in case

Mmmm...beef...agggggggghhh!!

We have Jamaican and English tastes to cater for so a seasoned chicken plus a traditional roast pork works for everyone. We have 2 separate gravies, one pepper hot and one plain.

We have Yorkshire puddings too

I have just taken delivery of an amazing looking big fat juicy 5kg cockerel! and I am beyond excited. Don't like turkey, usually have beef rib or Wellington, but I must say this big bird is getting my taste buds going.

Chicken here too, with a ham and half a million pigs in blankets. Stuffings will be chestnut and sage and onion. I usually make three but I've not been inspired this year

Just picked up our chicken - it's 3.5 kg! Had to move the shelves in the fridge to fit it in. I think it'd feed 10, never mind 5.

YANBU. My mum always buys a capon. She hates turkey as she says it is dry.

Capon is what we usually get, however we're lower in numbers this year so just went with a large chicken

We often have a lovely free-range corn-fed chuck of a Christmas. Not keen on turkey, me.

Anonymous, that cockerel sounds fantastic.

I wish everyone good eating.

What's everyone having for pudding?? I may skip pudding and just snaffle the chicken wanks that nobody but me likes instead...

WINGS! Oh fark how do I delete??

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Beef Christmas day, chicken boxing day here. I like Turkey, visitors don't

This produces lots of left overs to eat nice peace is restored.

Warm mince pie (home made pastry and mincemeat) with home made vanilla ice-cream for pud here. Can't manage to eat any more than that.

I think your chicken will be past wanks by the time you 'come' to eat it!

girly. Can't even blame that on t9 can i?? Lol

And star I misread that as "left over to eat mice!! Jeez...

Chicken wanks aren't really my thing

We've got home made Mary Berry Christmas pud for pud. Light and delicious with just a bit of pouring cream and half a bottle of extra rum

If you like Chicken, try and get a Capon, bigger tastier and usually free range, just harder to get hold of....

A capon is a castrated cockerel, Caponisation means they develop more meat, and are less gamey than normal cockerels. Due to industrial chciken production they are a rare find as most producers send male chicks for reptile food or other non-human consumption.

Cockrel castration...chicken wanks...there's a t heme starting me thinks...