Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Don’t Throw Away the Chicken Carcass


Has it even been a month since the last recipe? Who knows. But we welcome all content here. Besides, it's a semi-recurring bit now, and those are few and far between for us. So here's your next G:TB Recipe of the Month.

Whether you bought a chicken roaster at the grocery store or you roasted one for Sunday dinner, don’t throw it away. Make soup. (from the carcass) No its not soup season. I probably make more soup than anything else. My freezer is full of little containers labeled with the type of soup it is. Soup is one of the easiest things you can make, the cheapest, and can be popped out of the freezer for lunch, easy dinner, etc.

Asian Chicken Soup

Need:
Chicken carcass
Water
Onion
Garlic
Mushrooms
Swiss chard
Soy Sauce
Cayenne Powder
Udon noodles (not to be confused with national title winning Uconn noddles. - lame ass TJ joke)

Cover a chicken carcass with tap water
Simmer until the bones and meat are falling apart.
Drain the liquid and save it in a bowl. You now have a poor man’s stock. (real stock would have onions and vegetables in it, but you will add those to your soup)
Pick out all the meat and toss into bowl with stock and discard bones and skin and fatty parts. Or have your kid do this.

Sautee 1 large onion or 2 small onions and a few cloves of garlic in the same pot you made your stock.
Add in your stock/chicken you saved in a bowl. (depending on how much water you added you might not need all of it—you can save some for other stock uses—it freezes well)
Add in chopped swiss chard or other greens (bok choy, spinach, kale)
Add in chopped mushrooms
Add in soy sauce to taste. I used the annoying little packets that were floating around in the back of the fridge.
Add in spice—cayenne, chili powder, a dash of thai chili paste, etc
I didn’t have ginger, but ginger would be good here.
If you are eating carbs, add in udon (uconn) noodles.

Top with cilantro, lime juice.  

The awesome thing about making chicken soup is you can have a completely different recipe with the same process if you add in carrots, celery, peas, and turnips with thyme and oregano and take out the veggies and soy sauce above. Super traditional chicken soup. Or add in black beans, tomatoes, corn, peppers, and onions for a tortilla soup. And they all give you a lot of soup to eat/freeze with something that could be easily be tossed.

50 comments:

rob said...

uconn noodles!

mayhugh said...

Good tip. Had a little Carl Weathers flashback reading this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2PlqXw03Y

Mark said...

With today's news that UMass guard Derrick Gordon has come out as the first openly gay D1 basketball player I encourage anyone with HBO to watch 'Prayer for a Perfect Season'. Gordon is featured prominently as he was the team's (St. Patrick's NJ) second best player behind Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. The coach, Kevin Boyle, is also now the coach at Montverde Academy who are the two time defending HSBB national champs.

Like most of the HBO sports documentaries its great.

Shlara said...

These foodie posts are going to be great content for Gheorghe: The Podcast!

Marls said...

Based on this, I can't wait for the follow up to the Radish & Baby Turnip Salad over at Bacon Baking.

T.J. said...

is that link still live? amazing

Greg said...

You got a stew going.

zman said...

I am in favor of anything involving cilantro.

Mark said...

There's a Mexican place in New Orleans that serves cilantro margaritas. El Gato Negro. Delicious.

Mr KQ said...

All in on cilantro. Is El Gato any relation to Bato Gato?

Mark said...

No relation. One is a cat. The other is a squirrel.

rob said...

with catlike quickness

Danimal said...

Check your inbox pool participants!

Clarence said...

That's what I yell to everyone when I'm playing Marco Polo.

TR said...

FYI - MEAC ladies' bowling championship on ESPNU. FAMU against Maryland Eastern Shore.

None of this is a lie. For reals.

TR said...

Two quick observations:

1) This tourney didn't merit closing down the whole alley. There are schmucks in jeans bowling a few lanes away.

2) They seem to be playing with different rules. They are playing 3-frame mini matches, with each school putting up a different homely girl for each frame. It's not quite the modified Stableford scoring system, but it's different. I think they do a best of seven from these three frame match ups.

TR said...

Correction on rules. There is a five-person team. Each person bowls one of the first five frames. Pattern repeats for frames 6-10. This is apparently called the Baker format.

TR said...

FAMU has one white girl. She is from Canada. I bet she stands out on campus. Maryland Eastern Shore has a girl from Mexico who is wearing a skirt and could be considered cute if you squint hard enough.

TR said...

Fifth frame bowlers are called anchor bowlers. Presumable this is b/c they would bowl the extra frames after 10.

Announcers now saying fatigue is an issue. They have yet to yell Hambone like Rob Stone used to.

mr kq said...

Well played, Marco.

zman said...

TR hit the scotch again tonight.

TR said...

https://www.google.com/search?q=tatiana+munoz&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#hl=en&q=tatiana+munoz+bowling

Squeaky said...

Hi Gheorghes! Was too lazy last night to comment on the wonderful difference between African versus European swallows.

But can comment, without empricial data, non committal younger generation.they are lame about chatting up the ladies with someone older than them.

Which can be summed up in the Iowa shot called vag piss. Red bull , grand marinia and amareto

Clarence said...

Somebody left the cough medicine uncapped.

Danimal said...

Hello friends.

rob said...

looking forward to danimal streaking augusta, a tradition unlike any other.

rob said...

you gotta see how billy hamilton tagged and scored yesterday. speed like you read about:

atmlb.com/1i4MaGn

Mark said...

Squeaky's comment has left me quite confused.

As for TR's bowling comments. My ex brother in law Bowles for FSU in college. He's a loser.

My brother in law (different sisters) played baseball at FAMU before transferring to FSU. He said the baseball team was 75% white guys. He's much cooler than my ex brother in law.

Danimal said...

https://www.defiantwhisky.com/

give this a look. the founder of this was brought in for the week to hang out at the img house. it was worthy of several glasses.

rob said...

danimal, feel free to drop my name down there. mark mccormack and i were pretty tight.

Whitney said...

Squeaky's comment is still making me laugh.

rob said...

smokin' and drinkin' on a wednesday night for the squeak

Shlara said...

Danimal--forget the scotch...
Have you seen Adam Scott yet???

rob said...

per cbs, colbert is getting letterman's chair after dave retires. shame i don't stay up that late anymore.

Dave said...

just had some asian soup. i don't think i'll ever make any, since it's so cheap and plentiful in my neck of the woods. i am recuperating at home from my bronchitis, attempting to understand the movie "upstream color." it's very confusing. or maybe it's the codeine.

Mark said...

Seems like you'll miss out on pub night, Dave. Mix that codeine with some sprite and get your lean on.

mr kq said...

"Business" day drinking at Max's Taphouse in Fells Point. Waiting for Danimal streak show once coverage starts.

mr kq said...

Figjam Phil still looks soft.

Dave said...

this sickness has encompassed three pub nights. ridiculous, but today is the first day in two weeks that i didn't run a fever . . .

Clarence said...

Stop being a wiener and start drinking and snorting codeine like Mark said.

Danimal said...

I didn't streak today, but I was front & center for Philly's triple on 7. Whoopsy!
I did see Adam yesterday Shlara. Not today though. I'd expect tomorrow. Nice day today - he's doing much better than I expected.
Goodbye friends.

Danimal said...

Scott shot a smooth 69 I see.

Clarence said...

That was for Shlara

TR said...

On the topic of drugs, I got bursitis a while ago and was prescribed Tramadol to help with the pain and to help me sleep. The stuff is AMAZING. After ten days, I have no desire to ever sleep without its again. I think that's what addiction is.

Shlara said...

Nantz is annoying.

and Jack was on the golf channel earlier today--was talking about how his college-aged grand-daughter caddied for him in the par3 yesterday. Apparently, on the flight to Augusta, she was reading the schedule and said to him "oh, I see that we're having dinner with Adam Scott." And Jack said "no, I'M having dinner with him...sorry to disappoint you."

Everyone loves Adam, Clarence...everyone

Mark said...

Speaking of Jack's grand kids., his meathead grandson Nick O'Leary was recently involved in another motorcycle crash at FSU. Riding without a helmet and shirtless and was thrown off his bike in the collision. Apparently he was a bloody mess (again) but not broken bones. He's lucky he's made of titanium.

Clarence said...

Hey, Jess, better late than never - the missus always uses the carcass for stock. Chicken, ham, whatever. She's a soup fiend herself and says every time, "It's all about the stock." Great call, good recipe, and she will be making this soup soon. Minus he mushrooms, natch.

Danimal said...

Jack's grand-daughter, I don't know how old she is but will assume she is at least 18. She's hawt.
Wayne Gretzky sighting today but no daughter. Saw Mark'w boy Chris Collingsworth too.

Danimal said...

Hello Gheorghies.
Saw Mark's boy Chris Collinsworth today. Gretzky too, unfortunately Wayne and not his daughter.

Marls said...

Sober greetings to the fine folks of Gheorghe and TR.