You know what I'm talking about. The super cheap hot roast chicken you can get at the grocery for about $5. The ones that for some reason taste amazingly delicious.
I don't know about you, but I consider those a special treat. Maybe they shouldn't be.
A $5 chicken will cover about 3 meals for me if I am being a bit piggy. Even so, $1.67 isn't bad for a meal (or the protein part of one if I count sides). If I roasted that bird myself, I'd be paying about 10 for the bird plus the spices and cost of cooking it. And the burnout of smelling chicken for days since scents linger in my home.
So, stroke of genius. I've picked the bones pretty clean, there's skin because I try not to eat it, and all that other stuff that goes along with eating a chicken, Right?
I did what my grandmother (ok, likely my great grandmother, since Grandma is a pretty big fan of modern convenience) would do. I boiled up that carcass. Now I have chicken broth. Mildly flavored with lemon pepper, but now, when I make soup or rice or whatever else, I have a small supply of ready made, likely a bit healthier broth ready to go. And that $5 chicken just cost me $.67 per meal. (4.5 2 cup jars of broth plus 3 meals worth of meat)
I think I'm going to pick up a chicken more often!
Now into the freezer with these!!
1 comment:
Yummy!
I made chicken soup yesterday, far more than I or my roommate will eat in three days. The broth was good, but I should have not used broccolli and water chestnuts. I thought they sounded exotic, but, no.
The chestnuts absorbed and nullified the fat, and the broccolli aborbed the salt and made the broth taste extra green. Of the last 2 months worth of soups, this was the first to not work.
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