Advice truly from the Old Country, my great-great-grandmother Hannah: Buy two chickens. Mind, this advice is for feeding a family of several people, not a single girl living alone. There is more value to be gotten from two chickens rather than one.
1. One chicken you may take apart or roast whole. Depending on size of family and size of chicken (and number of hungry boys), this might last you anywhere from 1 dinner, to 1 dinner and 1 lunch, to 2 dinners and 1 lunch... If you do a whole roast, consider adding vegetables in and around the bird a la Thanksgiving turkey.
2. The second chicken you use to make chicken soup, which in and of itself has any number of health and comfort uses. You can use the chicken stock to then either make a heartier soup that will become a meal (like minestrone), or leave it as is. The meat you just boiled you remove, chop, and then make either fried up patties or wontons.
So there you go. That's at a bare minimum 4 meals and at a maximum 8. Of course, it does assume you have the time to be doing all this cooking, but if you're reading this, you probably have more time than money anyway.
2 comments:
You can also use the bones from the chicken you roast to make stock. And don't forget about the stuff you cut off the vegetables to make the soup! Carrot skins, the outside parts of the onion everyone takes off - those all go to making good stock.
An excellent point, my dear Emo. And remember, the Russians and the Chinese are brothers forever (yay Communist propaganda). Do I smell a guest post with old Chinese advice? Or is that my oven...
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