I gave up cooking chickens a long time ago when cleaning the oven became too much! Then I used an electric frypan for some years, finally just bought supermarket cooked chickens & eventually took the frypan to a charity shop.

I love reading all the lovely things you cooks, gardeners & canners create, but I'm the daughter of a bad cook, plus I'm lazy & would rather read or do crafty stuff than slave over a hot kitchen! I had a collection of cooking books from my younger days, but they eventually went to charity shops as they were taking up space & collecting dust.

I only kept my 1960's edition of the famous Commonsence cookery book, 1st ed 1914 it must be a family heirloom!

If I have a cooked evening meal it's soupy-stew - fill saucepan with yummy veggies, start them boiling & look in chest freezer for protein. Sometimes I have a plan, other times I just forage & bring out what takes my attention - crumbed fish, pieces of supermarket chicken, chicken schnitzel, lamb (yum!), vegiburgers ... Microwave the protein & serve beside or in the soup - yum! Soup is flavoured with a commercial sauce or chutney/pickles made by friends!

Sometime I just have my normal "dessert" - plain yohurt & fruit if I've had a big salad & sandwiches for lunch.

sandra