Country Living in a Cariboo Valley

Homesteading in BC

  • How to Get Started
  • Vegetable Gardening
  • Preserving Food
  • Recipes
  • Homemade Wine Recipes
  • About Us
  • Work With Me
  • Shop
    • Vegetable Garden Planner Printable: Grow Your Best Garden Ever
    • Grow Enough Food for a Year
    • Delicious Dandelions: A Recipe Collection
    • Dirt to Dollars: Selling at the Farmers Market
    • 8 Pounds in 8 Weeks: Raising Chicks for the Dinner Table
    • Making Wild Wine
    • Build a Hanging Chicken Feeder
    • 15 Things to Know About Living in the Country

Homegrown Chicken Dinner

By Annie

This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through these links, I may earn a small commission.

You know what I love? Roasted chicken for dinner.

 

Raise your own meat birds

Roasted chicken with mashed potatoes and frozen garden peas. We use a really good quality roasting pan; it’s a one time investment and we use it a lot.

 

peas in bowl

I’d rather have the peas fresh, but it’s not even the middle of April yet so I am content with frozen fresh peas from last year. Our homegrown peas taste much better than those bags of frozen peas at the grocery store.

 

Roasting one of our own meat birds

It’s always a treat when we cook one of our homegrown chicken. Although we part quite a few of the birds out (so we can have packages of breasts or thighs) we always leave several to cook as roasters. Before putting it in the oven, we rub the bird with melted butter then sprinkle it with salt and pepper. It’s especially good with a good sized sprig of Rosemary laid across its body so if you have some, use it.

 

Raise your own meat birds

It’s always so delicious, no matter what time of year we take one from the deep freezer.

 

Raise your own meat

We make broth from the juices and use it to make a pot of chicken soup. It’s an inexpensive meal and, coupled with some bread and a salad, it makes a healthy dinner. A nice sized meat bird can feed a family of 4 for 4 meals if you use your imagination. There are lots of recipes that use sliced or diced pieces of chicken.

Meat birds are great! We buy day old Cornish Giants and raise them for 8 weeks. We’re thinking of doing a few birds this year, but we haven’t made a final decision on it. You can read about our raising meat birds here if you like.

Just click to Share

0 shares
  • Share
  • Tweet

Filed Under: Food, Raising Meat Birds

Connect With Us!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Search this site

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Search in posts
Search in pages

Our Most Popular Posts

How to Preserve Garlic in Oil – and Other Ways to Store Garlic

a open jar of pickled brussel sprouts on a counter

Easy Pickled Brussels Sprouts Recipe (Water Bath Canning)

Privacy Policy

Read about our Privacy Policy

Disclosure

Please note that some of this site’s links are affiliate links, and CountryLivinginaCaribooValley.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. At NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU, I will earn a small commission, if you purchase them. I recommend them as they are good products.

Theme Design By Studio Mommy · Copyright © 2023