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My mother showed me as a young child how to wash a chicken and I've done it since till a few months ago when I failed a health and safety quiz because I did so. I was pretty relieved. It's not nice at all. I always have to get my hands in there and rip fat etc. rinse and then afterwards I have to basically sterilize everything with boiling water and vinegar. What a headache!

Now all I need to do is basically bung it in and thank goodness for that.

caralovesyou, I think we must have been rasied by the same pack. I'm always getting stick for tearing lumps off roasts and walking away with them. I'll tear cheese, bread, sliced of smoked fish, sausage and cake and just walk away. I am so hated in my mother's kitchen.

Roast guinea fowl with fresh figs, pickled vegetables and organic cider.

I'll be looking into a lot of pumpkin recipes this weekend. Can't deny All Hallow's Eve is coming up.

Very true. Many of the chickens we have for roast are pink after good cooking. Usually in the thigh area. I've had a fright once or twice but my mother reassures me it's normal. A tad chewy but it tasted fine and I lived to tell the tale.

If you've been cooking a more than reasonable time, your oven isn't broken and the chicken is by no means raw... you're probably ok to go.

These are lovely and so practical. It's a nightmare getting wax off of things.

I'm so lucky, being in the UK, I'm already into Season 2. All I can say guys is... it's amazing and worth waiting for.

Being British, I can agree. I just don't get pie. Of course, we're into our pies but not the same degree as Americans. A pie contest here would be laughable. I'd need to taste a reeeally good one to be convinced its not worth getting rid of the crust all together and simply making a tart of it.

I don't but that's only because I am an art student and a very picky one a that!

However, I might add to people that it's a very good idea to get artists when they're young before they are qualified etc. We sell our work dirt cheap and our commisions are also dirt cheap, or at least mine are. You could buy yourself a starbucks lunch with the price range I have in mind. Total tip guys, get them when they're young, support them and when they're doing very well you won't need to pay nearly as much.

Still, supporting an artist has to be a piece of charity if anything. You can happily say that money may well have led them on to a successful career or bought them the materials required for a piece of work that got them popular. Every time you buy an artist's work, especially a fledgling, there is a sigh of relief. It's like 'boy... I'm going to get there'. By buying you make it happen.

Plus you have something completely unique and original. Perfect!