Roasted by Chickens

It's already been two weeks since our big floods, though the cold and wet weather continues. It's not even May and already we feel well into winter, here's hoping it'll bring us lots of whales! It's also been a couple of weeks since our tourist committee did a big chicken roast, to raise funds for our new office and to get a few of our projects off the ground. Food sales are very popular with the local associations at the moment, particularly as territorial funds have all but dried up. So there are bake-sales almost every week, three weeks ago we ended up eating three banana cakes as well as chicken and chips all cooked for a good cause by different association! This was our turn, and we had (rather ill-advisedly) decided to cook roast chickens for sunday breakfast.
I hadn't fully realized, but this involved doing an all-night roast (in the end I was also feeling more than a bit roasted, as I finished delivering up my chickens in time for the breakfast service)! Despite being exhausting it was definitely an experience I won't forget too soon and kind of fun (as much as defrosting and cleaning 200 chickens for roasting can be), even if our timing was a bit off and we were sweating towards the end to get it all done in time.........

Another bonus was several kilos of left-over chicken livers,  which I used to make my own pate, which was really quite tasty for a first attempt. Happily we have also raised enough money that we won't have to be thinking about roasting any more chickens again in the near future!