This was the 4th or 5th meal that we got out of one of those cooked chickens you can buy at Costco for $4.99.
These are a real bargain (apologies up front to our vegan friends!).
The first night, we just had chicken, rice, and a vegetable plate, as I recall. On night #2, I made a pasta in a sherry-garlic white sauce, and mixed in pieces of chicken. Meda made a romaine salad.
Then we had at least one lunch of chicken sandwiches, maybe two?
And then I boiled down the bones into a hearty chicken soup with carrots, garlic, kale, onion, and a couple of hot chili peppers. On the side, sliced fresh tomatoes, artichoke hearts, olives, and a few slices of whole wheat bread.
It made for a tasty end to the day.
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Hi Ian. I like how you made soup with it. I make jook with mine and add brown rice instead of white.
One saying is “Knowledge is Power”… another is “Ignorance Is Bliss.” I think they’re both true. Now days one doesn’t even have to read a book; soon someone will have made a video about it. I watched Food Inc and Cowspiracy and some other documentaries about our industrialized, un-natural food production and CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations). The big breasted chicken you ate was 6 weeks old, specially bred to have huge breasts (because white meat is what a lot of people desire most), breasts so huge that the hen falls over, can’t walk. Surprising they don’t bred chickens with 4 or more wings because those are also in demand. If you were interested, I’m sure you would have researched it yourself, so… continue to enjoy the cheap chicken.