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Day #9: Ick.
Feb. 10th, 2010 08:35 pmToday I skinned a chicken.
Seriously, I planned to do something else for my new thing today. But I was able to get a later start this morning and put a chicken in the slow cooker to cook while I was at work. This, by the way, was not new (the one other time, I'd gotten the chicken at a butcher-type shop instead of the grocery store and the chicken was already skinned).
Spending 40 minutes skinning a chicken, however, was. Because, trust me, I would have remembered if I'd done that before. Many years ago, back in my student days, I worked in a map library. Those nice big maps that are stored flat? They don't come that way, they're rolled up in a tube. So we'd have to re-roll them the opposite direction to help flatten them. A colleague liken it to wrestling an octopus. I'd have to say that skinning a chicken is similar as well.
But, I was able to get (most of) the skin off and cooked the chicken while I was at work. I could smell it coming up the back walk from the garage. It tasted wonderful. Some pieces came off and went into the fridge, the breasts went into the freezer, and some was pulled apart for mixing in stuff. Or on my salads later this week and next. (I'm seriously considering changing my meal plan to have salad tomorrow and Friday. Yum.)
Now the bones and some veggies are back in the slow cooker to become broth. My house should be smelling pretty good again come morning.
Seriously, I planned to do something else for my new thing today. But I was able to get a later start this morning and put a chicken in the slow cooker to cook while I was at work. This, by the way, was not new (the one other time, I'd gotten the chicken at a butcher-type shop instead of the grocery store and the chicken was already skinned).
Spending 40 minutes skinning a chicken, however, was. Because, trust me, I would have remembered if I'd done that before. Many years ago, back in my student days, I worked in a map library. Those nice big maps that are stored flat? They don't come that way, they're rolled up in a tube. So we'd have to re-roll them the opposite direction to help flatten them. A colleague liken it to wrestling an octopus. I'd have to say that skinning a chicken is similar as well.
But, I was able to get (most of) the skin off and cooked the chicken while I was at work. I could smell it coming up the back walk from the garage. It tasted wonderful. Some pieces came off and went into the fridge, the breasts went into the freezer, and some was pulled apart for mixing in stuff. Or on my salads later this week and next. (I'm seriously considering changing my meal plan to have salad tomorrow and Friday. Yum.)
Now the bones and some veggies are back in the slow cooker to become broth. My house should be smelling pretty good again come morning.
