when cooking a whole chicken..

[Sara]

do you cook and eat or use the chicken neck, liver, etc? I never have, but am curious if others do eat them and what they make with them.

[Darlene]

Hubby sometimes does. He'll rinse them,put in the pan with some water & poultry seasoning and salt if the seasoning doesn't have it, simmer til cooked. He'll eat everything except the neck,(too many tendons etc., doesn't that sound lovely?) usually with crackers like an hors devoure.

[AmyBoz]

Now, why would you cook a whole chicken when you can just buy the breasts ready to go??? :D

Just kidding...sorta. I have a need to purchase my meat and poultry in such a way that I never have to think about the fact that it was once alive. Freaks me out.

[Sara]

Amy, I have that too, but I have to fight it equally with any cut of meat/chicken. Fish completely grosses me out to where I can't eat it at all.

I go through periods of time where eggs get me grossed out too, so I'll go a while without eating them.

I've been real funny about meats and eggs since I was a kid. I did go through the no meat on a bone thing, but as I got older I found it's all the same squirm factor for me. Heck..sometimes it's just the smell that triggers me to think about them walking around. lol

One thing I can't stand that grosses me out so much is when some stray feathers are still stuck in the chicken. oh man.

All in all though whole chickens are more bang for the cluck :D and Gabe loves chicken sandwiches.

[AmyBoz]

more bang for the cluck

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Funniest thing I've "heard" all day!

[baxjul]

I usually boil them in water then give them to Baxter (dog). He loves it! Gets all excited to see a chicken coming out of the freezer!

[Sweet]

I make mine in the crockpot. I use the bones and that stuff for making a nice broth that I'll freeze up and eventually add to stews and soups later on. We will have roast chicken and two vegetables, then chicken and noodles or dumplins, then chicken fajitas, then chicken vegetable soup or chicken salad or bbq chicken sandwiches and I'll still have plenty of broth left. The other three days in the week will be a pot of pinto beans made in the crock pot, and that'll usually make enough for bean soup, refried beans for bean burritos, then we'll make salsa cheese and bean dip from that one day and will serve that with corn chips. I can fit two hens in my 6 litre slow cooker, so I'll cook double meals of the stuff I mentioned up there and freeze them to have later on in the month. That's our fast food. Makes really good broth - stick that stuff in a pan of salt water and boil then add the spices your family likes to it and skim of the fat. When it's cooled, put it into freezer bags or freeze in ice cube trays and then put into freezer bags and store until they're needed.

[Darlene]

Whole chickens really are a good buy. How much do they cost where you live? I get them here for 67¢lb.