Slow Food

Tonight's meal of Devilled Chicken was delicious and within fifteen minutes it was gone.  It took a few minutes to prepare and then cooked slowly for approx three hours in the wood oven.
Served with creamy potato and vegetable bake from our home grown potatoes and Daisy's fresh cream, and some kale and cabbage from the garden lightly fried in home made butter.
The total cost of this meal for four was less than $2.  Nothing came out of a jar or packet and most of the ingredients were grown in our garden or made here in the kitchen from scratch.
 No electricity or gas was used, the wood for the fire was gathered at no cost.
All it took was human energy, motivation and time. Lots of time. But during that time, we did other things as well. We traveled, worked, enjoyed each others company and the company of friends, mended fences, planted trees, grew a garden and lived life.
You see, this meal started being made four months ago.

In February the fertile eggs were incubated and hatched after twenty onedays.  Fifty chicks were introduced to their broody hen surrogate mums who looked after them as their own for many weeks. Of them all, thirty were hen chicks and twenty were roosters.
The hen chicks (pullets) have just started laying eggs and the roosters have just started finding their voices at 4am each morning.
It's time for processing and into the freezer.

The last moments of their life were not spent shoved into small crates and transported hundreds of kilometres to a slaughtering factory.

                                                          With kindness & respect.

                                                         Ready for the freezer.