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Part 2: Chicken Stock

Someone before mentioned bovril - bah! Do it yourself, you lazy bastard.

Whenever you eat your cooked chicken, save every bone, fat or uneaten skin (you know, if you are crazy and don't like crispy brown chicken skin). Pick every last scrap of meat off that bird. You might think you got it all, but a lot of people don't really don't eat the back meat along the spine. This works better if you get most of it off. Set it aside because it is still good to eat.

Place bones in pot with water (a couple of cups), the giblets you stored (if you have them) and a tbsp or so of vinegar. Bring to boil and simmer for 30-60 minutes. If you boil all the water out, you didn't add enough so just add more - don't let boil dry. The vinegar isn't necessary but if you add it, it will leech the nutrients and minerals out of the bones which then you get to make yourself healthy. (Maybe you've done the science experiment where you place a leg bone in vinegar and then it goes all bendy because the calcium has been removed. Same principle.)

Remove the pot from heat, let cool. When you can, pull out the bones and giblet, you can toss them out now, and place pot in fridge - or if you are like Canadian's in winter, outside in a snowbank. The cooling will solidify the most of the fat. You've got most of the flavour and probably don't want too much fat in a stock (or do you?) so you can skim it and store away the lovely chicken stock that you can use for any recipe that calls for stock.

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Part 3 - Chicken Pot Pie

This is an extra recipe for when you have extra meat but not necessarily enough to feed a couple of people.

2 tbsp butter
2 potatoes, chopped
2 onions, diced
2-3 carrots, diced
optional veg: zuccini, mushroom, peas
Leftover chicken, chopped
1/3 cup of flour
1 3/4 cups of milk
1 3/4 cups of stock
1/2 tsp salt, pepper, taragon, oregano

Biscuit top
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole grain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 or less cold butter, cubed
2/3 cups milk

Preheat oven to 400F

Melt butter in pan and fry up your veggies. You'll want the potatoes to be in fairly small cubes (dice size or smaller) so they'll cook faster. Add flour to mixture (maybe more butter too) to create that roux thing talked about before. Stir in milk and stock, heat until it simmers and begins to thicken, add chicken and spices and in a few minutes transfer to 2L bakingware dish. You know - those white pots with lids.

Now, it's not pot pie without a crusty top. So mix flower, salt and cold butter (cubed) and then stir in milk to it is a thick, sticky mess. As best you can, lay it out on top of your chicken/veg mixture. Most likely it'll just clump and won't be even, but hey - that's part of the charm.

Place in oven uncovered for 40 minutes or until the top is golden brown and crispy and the mix below is bubbling out the edges.

Overall, should only take 20 min to prepare, so one hour meal.

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Part 4: Soup.

Yeah, you have stock, you can make soup. Soup is easy. Pretty much cook or boil vegetables in chicken stock and water. Done. Cream soups are different and you add milk or cream, but I'm not big on those - except chowder. But I'll give you a couple of quick ones.

Potato-Onion soup

Fry potato (3-4 medium size) and onion (2-3) in butter. Add stock and water in equal parts. Add pinch of salt and pepper and a tbsp (or as I do, glug) of soy sauce. Simmer for 20-30 minutes to allow flavours to infuse and to reduce somewhat. Then, in appropriate amounts, put soup in food processor/blender and blend to a mush. Put back on heat to make it warm and eat.

OR, place soup in oven safe bowl, put slice of bread on top with cheese of your choice - toast and melt. French Potato-Onion soup.

Minestrone Soup

One of my favourites. Add olive oil, onion, clove of garlic, celery, carrot, zuccini, mushroom (all vegetables are optional and can be replaced), to pot and saute until onions are soft. Add stock and water (1:1), tomato paste (depending on size of soup, 1 of those small cans or half of it) tomato (canned or 3-4 fresh), shredded cabbage, beans or peas, salt, pepper, oregano, basil, thyme, sage, 1 cup or so pasta of your choosing. Simmer til cooked and hot. You can also add sausage or some other meat if you like.

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And there you go. If you are just one or two people, this could pretty much do you for a week, easily.

TheBaron

Hmm. A somewhat easy soup - doesn't cost a lot, and tastes wonderful.

1 bottle/box of white whine
100G Tomatopaste
Chopped Onions
A bit of chopped Garlic
A little Water
Some fresh Herbs
Bouillon, preferably chicken or beef.


Take a pot, and put all the tomato-paste in it - heat it up, and burn the bitterness out of it. Add 1-2 glasses of whitewhine, and let it boil the alcohol out. Put in the onions, and let them fry for a minute or two. Add the Garlic, and fry for another minute. Now, pour over some bouillon and some normal water - and let boil. Add fresh herbs as you like, finish the taste with salt and pepper - add some cream or Sour Cream if you like, and a bit of bread. Easy to make, tastes wonderful, looks fantastic.

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not a fan o foodz with alcoholz.

alcoholz = $$$.

u can haz awesome food without alcoholz

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@Darth- You don't have to use alcoholic beer but I don't see why it matters. The alcohol aspect of it burns off when you cook it.

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Sure you can - but for this recipe I wrote, you don't have to buy the best. If anything, buy the worst. You only need the essence, of what wine is, not the alcohol and different kinds of taste. You need both the sweetness and the bitterness from the whine.

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So skipped 5th block of school today, naughty me.
But when I did I went home and I made some delcious, Hot and sour soup with shrimp ; )
My fave soup ever, it was so good with the taste of the shrimp and tofu combined made my mouth water all over.

Ingredients:

3 cups fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
1/2 cup presliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1 (8-ounce) can sliced bamboo shoots, drained
2 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon white pepper
1 1/2 pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
8 ounces reduced-fat firm tofu, drained and cut into 1-inch cubes
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons water
1 large egg white, beaten
1/4 teaspoon chili oil
2 tablespoons chopped green onions

What to do:

Combine first 4 ingredients in a large saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes. Add juice, pepper, shrimp, and tofu to pan; bring to a boil. Cook 2 minutes or until shrimp are almost done. Combine cornstarch and water in a small bowl, stirring until smooth. Add cornstarch mixture to pan; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly with a whisk. Slowly drizzle egg white into pan, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in chili oil and onions.

Easy simple and tastey ; )

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Originally Posted by sassy212 So skipped 5th block of school today, naughty me. But when I did I went home and I made some delcious, Hot and sour soup with shrimp ; ) My fave soup ever, it was so good with the taste of the shrimp and tofu combined made my mouth water all over. Ingredients: 3 cups fat-free

Stopped reading there.

Miburo

Sassy, post pics of yourself.

Darth-Nero

Will lets say that i'll be ,somewhat,a criminal if i did drink alcohols. some times i drink some balsamic vinegar and think that this is how red wine tastes like.

Will it's not a chance i can take. =(

Yes,Sassy,this is also welcomed in the cooking thread......If you're hot.

No pun intended. XD

Demi-God

Allow me to culture you.

ACt

^ Too much milk in that tea.

Demi-God

The flash brah, the flash made it bright. There's a trinkle.

ACt

Still too much.