No Laughing at the Beer Can Chicken!

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