As you likely know from reading this blog, we tend to
blog about projects and things we are doing or refitting on the boat. The thing is now that we have moved aboard,
we don’ just work on it every waking hour (though at times it seems like
it).
This morning before the heat of the day, I was relaxing
in the cockpit and decided to do some food preparation for the upcoming
week. Deb and I had made a roasted
chicken for dinner earlier in the week.
We had wrapped it up and put it in the fridge. While living in our house, we would have
left it in the fridge and either heated up a bit or tossed it in the trash when
it had been in there a “little too long”.
Rather than do that, we decided to prep all of the
chicken for use in other things this week.
First I stripped all of the skin from the bird (there
was still a whole bird short of one breast and one wing). The next steps was to remove the chicken from
the bones. Breaking off each piece
(Breast, thigh, wing, leg) I just pulled the chicken from the bones being
careful not to get any of the cartridge from the joints. Each piece of chicken was pulled into a small
¼” to ½” wide strip of meat.
To make sure we get
the most use out of this, we also broke the carcass into two parts and put it
in a pot of water along with the chicken leg and thighbones. We added, salt, pepper and just a bit of
cayenne and heated it up on the stove.
This will then
be strained and cooled, when cool, we will scrape any fat off the top of the
stock and put it in a sealed container to use as chicken stock in rice or soup
later in the week.
I know this is a departure from our typical blog, but
hope that over time these become more about what we are doing and where we are
going than just what we are rebuilding J.
Until next time, we
will be enjoying our upcoming meals.
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| Bones simmering to make Chicken Stock |
May the wind fill your sails, and your keel stay down.
