Rubber Chicken

Badger_Lady

Good post!

I care a lot about chickens... I actually joined a charity in the UK that buys hens from battery farms when they've 'reached the end of their service' and rehomes them. I would hire a large van and collect hundreds of caged, featherless birds and take them to live in back yards and real farms where they could run about the way nature had designed them to. I had three chooks of my own (two of them are pictured below) and they were simply fab.

Do you know how much we actually buy this living, breathing, young, egg-laying animals for? 50p! :eek: That's market value: 50p for a life. Barely more than the price of an egg. Amazing.

It breaks my heart that birds like this (granted male rather than female) can be sold for pennies and then just thrown away. I applaud anyone who'll give the animal the respect it deserves by using up every bit :T

zippychick

How very well done ! :D:D:D

Ill merge this with our rubber chicken thread later

Zip

Linda32

sparklewing, We do the same :money: I was also guilty of buying chicken portions until it was pointed out that they are so much more expensive then a whole chicken.

We roast a chicken then freeze other portions. We stretch the portions buy adding sweetcorn and mayo to make topping for jacket spuds. Or mixing a portion into *curry sauce, with rice

Another way is to re-heat in gravy for another meal with potatoes and veg.

In the summer we have a portion cold with salad and new potatoes.

*We buy the basic curry sauce, its really nice as well. We actually bought it for the jar to make pickles. But the chap at the checkout at Sainsburys said people buy it instead of chip shop curry sauce as its nicer. I tried it and its lovely. :T

Riversong

We do a stew with the leftover meat/veg in stock made from the carcass. Nom.

YORKSHIRELASS

Homemade chicken stock is great, it makes pasta or risotto dishes so tasty.

Having older kids means that I cant get that much out of a chicken any more but I do try and use it all up. I also carve the chicken and only take some of the meat to the table, then I can at least try and save some for another day!

mazza111

I used to buy portions too. Past couple of weeks I've bought a whole chicken, and usually get a day's dinner (4 big meat eaters in the house) and a pot of soup or stock for something else with it. No more portions for me.

foxgloves

Ah, now that you've mastered the art of the rubber chicken, there'll be no stopping you! You can also do wonders with beef, pork & ham hock. I am completely obseesed over being creative with leftovers.....already starting to think about all the lovely things I can make after Christmas with my turkey stock & leftovers!

suki1964

I find if you have stuffing and at least 4 veg and roasties, then one breast and one thigh/drumstick is enough to feed four adults a Sunday dinner. leaving the other half to do chicken curry for 4, soup for at least 8 and maybe a sandwich or two

The only portions of chicken I buy are thighs for cooking in chinese/indian dishes as I find breast meat too dry - and too bloody expensive

valk_scot

I like free range happy chickens but the budget doesn't allow at the moment, sadly. So I buy the four for £12 Tesco ones and spend an intensive half hour in the kitchen with a sharp knife cutting them up. Eight big chicken breasts, including the "mini-fillet" bit that gets sold seperately now, a good 2-3 pounds of diced thigh and leg meat plus small trimmings from the carcass, eight wings (I freeze these and when I have two batches I bake them in BBQ sauce) and a huge pot of extremely concentrated chicken stock, enough for four big pots of soup. for £12. If you bought eight standard chicken breasts in Tesco they'd cost £12 alone normally.

mummybearx

I cooked a chicken in the oven on Sunday, now the rest of it is lying in a tub in the fridge. Only bits eaten were a breast and a leg (im veggie and there is only DH left)

Thinking of doing an indian curry tonight, got a jar of Patak's paste and some onions and peppers for myself. Sure I have a naan that's maybe still in date. will be fine toasted anyway

What else can I do with it? Never actually done this before, normally forget to fridge it and it goes off in the oven