he's eaten the WHOLE chicken!!

Churchmouse

Parcelling them up, but neither knows one end of a spade from the other!! Can eat for England though!!

lynsayjane

thats ok i quite enjoy cooking, so long as they do they washing up!

leni

well I made the soup and he's taken it to work with him for lunch today!

We had chilli last night and I out a portion aside for his dinner tomorrow and I've just checked and it's still in the fridge :T

FrugalJo

lol leni, I guess the chilli doesn't have the same instant satisfaction as the chicken at this time in the morning.

kittiwoz

My first attempt at a chicken soup was terrible, carcass, onion, carrots all in a pot with water covering, simmered for two hours, took the jelly off after it had cooled but it was just too watery, and ideas what I could do to improve.
Noodles perhaps ? Thank I was expecting too much.

You don't take the jelly off, just the fat. The jelly is the good bit and it melts when you heat the soup. If you did the same again but spiked the onion with a couple of cloves and added a bay leaf, some salt and some grated nutmeg, maybe a stick of celery you'd have Jewish penicillin (clear chicken soup). Good with dumplings, should be kneidle made with matzoh meal for authenticity, but ordinary dumplings are good too. Small pasta shapes or vermicelli are also a good addition. Alternately use it as stock and add meat scraps, veg or lentils to make a more substantial type of soup.

Phatmouse

On Saturday I forgot to take chicken out of the freezer for a curry. So told other half we could have sausage and mash with black onion gravy and yorkshire puddings. You should have seen his face I really thought he was going to cry, he said 'I bet we have to have veg with it too' (he is 28 years old!). ALL afternoon he moaned, I told him to go out of the house and get some food, there is a chippy at the end of the street I reminded him, he seemed really upset at the thought of eating sausage and mash, looking at his face you would have thought he had just received bad news, he was muttering about bloody sausages all day!!!

When I came to cook tea I asked him how many sausages he wanted, he said, 5 sausages and 4 yorkshires :eek: the upset must have really effected his appetite.

I couldn't beleive it!!!

Then after eating it he sat there rubbing his tummy looking really happy with himself, the sod

FrugalJo

kittiwoz wrote:

You don't take the jelly off, just the fat. The jelly is the good bit and it melts when you heat the soup. If you did the same again but spiked the onion with a couple of cloves and added a bay leaf, some salt and some grated nutmeg, maybe a stick of celery you'd have Jewish penicillin (clear chicken soup). Good with dumplings, should be kneidle made with matzoh meal for authenticity, but ordinary dumplings are good too. Small pasta shapes or vermicelli are also a good addition. Alternately use it as stock and add meat scraps, veg or lentils to make a more substantial type of soup.

Kitti
Thank you for that, I have a little Jewish ancestry so perhaps I knew what I was doing really - just not the final stages. lol !
I will try again
Jo
(wanders off for a latka recipe