I'm reading The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater and have been inspired to keep track of my cooking and eating adventures. We'll see how it goes, but that's the plan for now.
Today I'm making chicken stock from the leftover carcasses that my sweetie has been storing in the freezer and my own very successful first foray into cooking a whole chicken. I'm using a Jamie Oliver recipe to start with, but chicken stock is fairly basic and there are a million good recipes, so I'm not going to share it here.
The whole thing is a bit bizarre for me since I haven't eaten meat myself for 12+ years. I find it very hard to cook without being able to taste the food, but I can remember that homemade chicken stock is far superior to the supermarket stuff you get and it's relatively low effort for the results.
Ian was surprised at the large quantity that I made (hey! 3 chickens make a lot of stock!) and the freezer which was formerly full of chicken skeletons is now full of stock. I'm curious what he'll make with it!
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