Now, I know this sounds most unusual and to tell the truth I have never tried this before but it had to be done. I decided to make a beer can chicken. I had the beer and for once I was willing to share because Guiness in a can is NOTHING like guiness from a tap. 
I made a lavender and garlic rub.
I washed the chicken. I squeezed lemon and oil all over it, rubbed it with the Rub, stuffed some lavender and lemon inside, poured half the beer in the pig bucket, then topped up the can with lemon and lavender, and placed the bird very carefully over the can of beer. And this is where I lost all respect for the chicken. I mean look!
How can I take this seriously. It was tasty, but really! Cooking is a serious business. To stand all alone in your own kitchen and laugh at the bird is unexpected. 
While it cooked I went to talk to Daisy but she is in a huff today. She started going on about being fat and heavy and tired. I talked to her soothingly about how pregnancy is beautiful and how she was glowing and blossoming and she told me to bite myself and went back to the bottom of her field where she has been lying all day. She is in her last month. Best we stop looking at her now.
So I tried to get a shot of the lambs playing. But Aunty Mia thinks she is still a lamb and gallops and ponks about the field after them. Scaring the poor wee things half to death! 
Good morning! The chicken was very tasty. And today is Mothers Day so I hope all you Mothers got an extra few minutes of sleep in. Yesterday I got all the potatoes mounded up and while I was admiring the growth I noticed the empty row then realised that I had forgotton to plant any regular potatoes. The whole potato patch is gourmet blue! Or purple, I can’t remember. But no white or red. Now isn’t that a strange thing to forget. That will make for interesting summer dinners!
Today I will mound up the leeks and the garlic, weed the house onions and replant spring onions. Spring seems set to stay. John will finish fencing some of the Dairy Mistress paddock. I will dismantle and re mantle the electric fence to make a big corner and then move some stock about. Particularly Queenie Wineti the Fighter of Pigs. She needs to move out the back with the good grass. Having the new field brought into the light rotation will be great.
Oh and Kupa showed Pania and Tui their permanent sleeping quarters right up in the top rafters of the barn last night. So now they are officially free. Though Kupa has to stop herding the roosters. He moves them round and round all day. I am hoping that this is just a spring thing. It is exhausting to watch. He is being a trifle over protective.
Good morning. Have a lovely day. I hope that you find a nice warm sunny corner for your morning coffee!
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
80 responses to “No Laughing at the Beer Can Chicken!”
Yes, I had never heard “ponk,” either. Your chicken does look ridiculous — I think it’s the lemon hat, myself, and the tucked wings. No sun here: we’re having our summer weather pattern — fog in the morning, fog in the evening, clear in the afternoon.
Good morning, Celi, and happy Mother’s Day to you and all the farmy mums too. I haven’t made beer can chicken for years and years and year, and now I have a hankering for it. The chicken is thawing in the fridge as we speak…write. Hope you have a lovely day!
morning misky! I must pop over and see what you are up to! see you on the other side! c
Evening! Not so much happening on Misk Cooks but I’ve been busy writing. A bit of Flash Fiction at http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/flashy-fiction-those-shoes/ and one of my poems is being published in June. It’s this one at http://miskmask.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/flashy-fiction-those-shoes/ So guess what?! Finally I’m a proper published writer! 😀
WOW! Will you remember us little people when you are famous.. seriously i am very impressed that you have one of your work published.. it is good, your work.. it is very good.. now I am going to zoom across and read! c
Another tempting combo
Your chicken looks like he’s sitting on the can meditating! 😉 Although with the jaunty lemon hat and crossed arms he could be an Iron Chef. Happy Mother’s Day to you, Mama and Daisy! We have lovely rain here today, hope your day is lovely too!
Fantastic chicken! I love beer can chicken, and the rub sounds delicious. Oh, and what sweet looking farm animals. Daisys adorable face warms my heart!
Morning karista, sometimes she is quite a nice cow.. generally she is surly! but I like a bit of attitude! c
Comedy chicken! But I’ve never seen or heard of anything like beer can chicken before.
Loving your photos, especially the chicken – ha! Happy Sunday!
I’ve always wanted to do chicken that way, but never really dared. Your cooking is delightful! Also, you Sunday sounds very busy. We are taking it off…only moving the irrigation water and that is twice a day right now (like milking a cow 🙂 ) since we are in fields with the crops up and the ground has been wet before. Makes for a much easier day.
We will back at it tomorrow.
Love your green, it’s everywhere!
Linda
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Morning Linda, i hope you find a little piece of peace this afternoon! c
I agree about the Guinness.
Oh I laughed, you can’t stop me. Also, you can’t pose a chicken so it looks like it’s about to dance and not make me laugh. Ha, chicken dance!
Ha HA!!! chicken dance! awesome.. c
*giggles at the chicken* Well, at least it was tasty. Happy Mothers Day to all the moms at the farmy!
That is one of my favourite way of cooking perfectly browned chicken. Fantastic system. You should look at Patricia Wells “Bistro Cooking” and check out her Poulet Roti l’Ami Louis. You will need to get hold of goose or duck fat:)
I have a jar of duck fat in my fridge! I shall look it up! thank you roger! c
Happy Mother´s Day – it was last weekend in Spain and I think in March in the UK…weird!
Oh I know what you mean about the Guinness. I didn’t make that mistake again. I thought you found a very discreet way of photographing poor old Daisy. And reading on, I thought, “earth up the potatoes! That’s right!” On my to-do list for tomorrow.
Yes those spuds! we want lots of them!! morning siobhan.. c
Happy mother’s day Cecilia, I had a good laugh but not because of the chicken, it is because of aunty Mia! oh those poor lambs
aunty mia gets a wee bit over excited!!! morning sawsan.. c