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Have I cracked the mumsnet chicken?

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 19:02

Or did I cheat?
Full disclosure, I started off with 2 chickens, but the 1st meal fed 7 adults and 1 toddler.
1st meal - roast whole chicken + trimmings
2nd meal - leftovers chicken leek and mushrom pie, topped with sliced roast potatoes - didnt finish this - i reckon theres 1 stingy portion left if its eaten with something else - served 2 adults and 1 toddler
3rd meal - simmered down the bones and skin after stripping the meat off it. Added in gravy and fresh blanched veg and stripped meat to make enough chicken soup for at least 2 meals for 2 adults and 1 toddler. Especially if served with bread.
Is 2 chickens cheating if I served 8 in the original meal, or have I recreated the mythical mumsnet chicken?

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StarfishBrain · 14/10/2022 22:32

TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:31

What do you think? Will this stretch to a mythical 4th meal?

Definitely. Chicken chow mein is lovely!

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:34

@StarfishBrain yes, it was just whatever I could grub up from the fridge the shoved in the oven for 40 minutes. They're always the tastiest!! I liberally smeared tikka paste all over the chickens before I roasted them, so the skins and gravy tastes quite like a mild curry. Its worked really well to use that plus creme fraiche as a sauce in the pie

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TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz · 14/10/2022 22:40

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Well done, OP. And the diagrams... 🤌🏻

Not a chance I could make this work. But we’ll never know for sure because I don’t cook.

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:41

There is actually enough skin and bits which have fallen off the bones since simmering to make at least 3 kitty meals 😂
We were all wrong. MN chicken does exist.

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:43

@TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz why thank you!

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:46

1 happy cat

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TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz · 14/10/2022 22:47

😹

StarfishBrain · 15/10/2022 00:16

TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:34

@StarfishBrain yes, it was just whatever I could grub up from the fridge the shoved in the oven for 40 minutes. They're always the tastiest!! I liberally smeared tikka paste all over the chickens before I roasted them, so the skins and gravy tastes quite like a mild curry. Its worked really well to use that plus creme fraiche as a sauce in the pie

That sounds great! May try this...

StarfishBrain · 15/10/2022 00:19

TerfranosaurusVagina · 14/10/2022 22:41

There is actually enough skin and bits which have fallen off the bones since simmering to make at least 3 kitty meals 😂
We were all wrong. MN chicken does exist.

Noooo.... the skin is the best! Any that is not eaten with the roast, freeze in a separate bag. A quick shock of heat in the oven with salt on top and it becomes a lively tapas, to serve with jalapeño poppers or chicken wings or croquettes etc. Delicious! Or as a "topping" on s chickem risotto or similar. Don't feed the best bits to the cat!!

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 00:27

If you can be arsed to make your own tikka paste, heres the recipe. It tastes great and lasts up to a month in the fridge. You can marinate meat with yoghurt or make tikka sauces with it too.

Its a thermomix recipe so I'll translate:
Dry fry 1st 4 ingredients for 5 minutes. Grind in food processor or pestle and mortar until fine powder. The house will smell amazing.
Add next 4 ingredients to food processor and blitz on high for a minute to make an ugly paste. You might have to scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure you get it all.
Transfer to a saucepan with the rest of the ingredients and cook on low for 45 mins stirring regularly. Do not allow to boil.
Transfer to sterilised jars and top off with oil.

Have I cracked the mumsnet chicken?
Have I cracked the mumsnet chicken?
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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 00:29

I'm a wuss with skin. What about the feathery stumps, or even worse pig hairs in crackling? 🤢

Besides, the cat must be fed to qualify.

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StarfishBrain · 15/10/2022 03:53

TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 00:27

If you can be arsed to make your own tikka paste, heres the recipe. It tastes great and lasts up to a month in the fridge. You can marinate meat with yoghurt or make tikka sauces with it too.

Its a thermomix recipe so I'll translate:
Dry fry 1st 4 ingredients for 5 minutes. Grind in food processor or pestle and mortar until fine powder. The house will smell amazing.
Add next 4 ingredients to food processor and blitz on high for a minute to make an ugly paste. You might have to scrape the sides of the bowl to make sure you get it all.
Transfer to a saucepan with the rest of the ingredients and cook on low for 45 mins stirring regularly. Do not allow to boil.
Transfer to sterilised jars and top off with oil.

Thank you for this, I will definitely try it.

StarfishBrain · 15/10/2022 03:54

TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 00:29

I'm a wuss with skin. What about the feathery stumps, or even worse pig hairs in crackling? 🤢

Besides, the cat must be fed to qualify.

Yes to feeding the cat good food of courss.

Absolute no to giving them the tastiest part of the chicken! Or - as is a cat's aim in life - gas the cat become your master?

StarfishBrain · 15/10/2022 03:56

*has

🙄🙄 I am too tired.

Thanks for the tikka recipe though - I am on it!

SalviaOfficinalis · 15/10/2022 07:05

10/10 for diagrams and a gold star ⭐️

Dammitthisisshit · 15/10/2022 14:07

There’s definitely enough chicken there for another meal! Easily. In this house that would become a stir fry chicken meal. Maybe followed by a lunch of chicken-y egg fried rice to use the last bits. But I like the chorizo/bean/squash idea - you get extra points for the squash being home grown.

and you get extra points for diagrams and feeding cat.

IncessantNameChanger · 15/10/2022 15:59

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 14/10/2022 21:26

But you would have boiled them. Full disclosure, I would have gone right ahead.

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Actually they did go into the fridge to make soup but in the end I couldn't face it. However ds loves chicken stock soup so he could have eaten it and been none the wiser 😇

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 19:08

Right! Soup is made - its got a whole swede, some diced carrots, the last of my homegrown courgettes and runner beans, herbs from my ceiling (See this thread) and a couple of handfuls of homegrown cherry tomatoes. You're right, theres still easily enough chicken left for another pie or pizza toppings or ACTUALLY, I grew spaghetti squash this year so I could try it in a curry sauce with squash noodles!
Soup made 4.5 litres so thats easily 2 meals plus extra for freezer.
Its beginning to feel like the magic porridge pot.

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 19:13

StarfishBrain · 15/10/2022 03:54

Yes to feeding the cat good food of courss.

Absolute no to giving them the tastiest part of the chicken! Or - as is a cat's aim in life - gas the cat become your master?

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Haha she stole DS's toast and jam the other day! He was very upset and hasn't stopped talking about it since! She is mainly outdoors though so she's not too bad as food thievery goes!
She caught a rat the other day so she has earnt her chicken.

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MrsMinted · 15/10/2022 19:17

I came on this thread starry-eyed about the MN chicken, like a child at Christmas seeking proof of Santa's existence, and am now completely distracted by your roast dinner! Which pickles and cheese does one serve with tikka roasted chicken? (Or were the pickles and cheese for afters?)

That tikka recipe has made my mouth water. I will definitely try it!

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 20:23

@MrsMinted It was a bit of a random dinner TBH! Not the usual british roast haha!
It wasnt intended to be an indian meal - I just used the paste to add some flavour like you would smear reggae reggae sauce on it. I actually sous vided the chickens with a lemon up their arses so I got loads of juices in the bags when I took them out to finish them off. That made a very tasty but unusual curry flavoured gravy.
I'd made a sourdough loaf so I was going to put that on the table to have with the meal like the french do, then I thought well Ive got cheese and chutney so sod taking the bread off only to slap it on a cheese board and put it back on the table so I put the entire thing on the table for people to help themselves. The chutneys- one is homemade green tomato and the other is a spicy one.

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 20:26

The garlic cloves are a PITA to peel for the tikka paste as there's about 3 bulbs worth. If you put them in boiling water for 30 seconds they become much easier.

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MrsMinted · 15/10/2022 20:59

Green tomato chutney is on my To do list, but we keep getting sunshine so I'm still eking out the late crop!

I love your style.

"Sous vide with a lemon up its arse" should be the name of your first cookbook.

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TerfranosaurusVagina · 15/10/2022 23:11

It would be the randomest recipe book ever. 😂I want to try beef shin next. Is there a MN standard I should be aiming for with that?

I had a load of outdoor tomatoes which needed using quick! They filled an entire 9L stockpot and still had to wait for them to cook down a bit before I could put the rest in. Still got a few beefsteaks and cherries left indoors though!

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EndlessMagpies · 15/10/2022 23:17

I can easily feed 8 adults with one chicken.

Four of them are cats though...