MAKING CHICKEN SEASONING FOR BAKED CHICKEN

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Making your own seasoning is much nicer and it is a way to use your crusts if no one wants these. That way this is not wasted. 

Wasting food is a sign of the loss of connection to the universe and to nature. One should try to use or give away food and never to waste it.  Storage and thought will overcome wastage.

Grab 2 pieces of bread and tear into tiny pieces in a bowl
Chop 1 onion finely
Place with Bread in bowl
Add herbs, Parsley Thyme, chives, Salt and Pepper and chicken seasoning in a jar stuff
Beat an Egg and put that in also
A dash of cayenne pepper for a little bit more flavor

Mix all of this well with your hands and take small handful's and shove this up the chook's bum
after you have rinsed it with clean water.  Keep putting handfuls in until the entire cavity is full of this mixture.  Then take a big needle and ordinary cotton is fine and a couple of big stitches to keep all this nice and closed so it doesn't come out during the cooking.

There you go, that is how simple it is.  You can vary this recipe to your own tastes but basically its the bread and egg to hold it together and your imagination.

MAKING CUSTARD (Custard Powder)

Lets make some yummy custard,  and let's just suppose you have a microwave oven.  If you do then this will be very very simple and fool proof.  This never fails.  If there is some left over it is fine the next day also even if the custard has solidified a little more.

 

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons of Custard Powder
1 large tablespoon of white sugar
2 tablespoons of milk for mixing
500 mls of milk

Method:

Mix together the custard powder and sugar with a little milk to make a nice consistency to pour into the rest of the milk which is in a microwave proof jug and mix this in thoroughly.

Place in the microwave for 3 minutes .. take out stir well and replace in the mic again for a further 3 minutes.  As the custard cools it will become thicker. 
If you want thicker custard for cooking purposes or for making trifle, simply increase the amount of custard powder used.

The traditional way of making custard with egg yolks is fun, however with rising prices and the lack of available funds and chook's in the backyard being a thing of the past; I decided to tell you about this simple custard and the ease at which you may satisfy a sweet tooth at a late ungodly hour!

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