Day One of Chick-Chick Week, almost caused this whole week to come to a screeching halt. See, I forgot a piece of advice my mother told me. ”Be careful buying a whole chicken from the Asian market.” Just to let you know, when the label says, whole chicken, it doesn’t mean just the breast, thighs, and wings. It doesn’t mean most of the body parts and the giblets. It means WHOLE chicken.
Right down to the beak and feet.
Because I am admittedly a lame ass, I almost gave up on Chicken-o-Rama right there. Jeon women are very sensitive to dismembering parts of animals. It was why my mother wouldn’t eat chicken and red meat in Korea. It was why I (remember I’m a lame ass) didn’t eat anything other than boneless meat up until a few years ago.
Then I remembered how I’m supposed to be a tough modern-day meets traditional lady and I can’t be afraid of looking my food in the face… But seriously, tip people, don’t name it. Then you’ll be thinking of Jimmy the chicken from Brooklyn’s sad face as you eat your delicious taco. I couldn’t even take a picture. I’m a lameass, I know.
Well, I roasted this baby at 400 degrees for about an hour and threw in some garlic and shallots.
Salt, pepper, and some olive oil. At the end I put some fresh parsley on the top of it. Doing this, I realized I should have put together a grocery list yesterday so that all two readers could cook this with me.
I was going to eat just the chicken but I ended up making a taco salad:
Once everything was cool, I split the leftover chicken into two piles. Tuesday and Thursday will have chicken in them, Wednesday I’m going to use the the broth I started tonight. Friday I’ll be eating leftovers or maybe out. I only plan my meals for Monday-Thursday. I should have said that…
Anyway, I took the bones, free from as much meat as possible, I threw some scraps from Wednesday’s Recipe (I tried it last week!), parsley, thyme, salt, and peppercorns and some water in the pot then put it on the lowest heat on the burner and left it for a couple hours while I cleaned the kitchen, caught up on e-mails, etc. When I get home tomorrow, I’ll skim it some more, and put it on very low heat again. Then I will have some broth for Wednesday (then some!) Yay for trying to use all parts of the chicken!
Except… I didn’t even try to find a use for the head and legs. I’m a wasteful person. Sorry, Jimmy.