Thursday, November 19, 2009

The freezer


I've been giddy all day. Partly because I had a nice lunch date with the hubby on a rare day off with the munchkin at day care. But really because I salted 2 whole chickens and a rack of baby back ribs and threw it all in the freezer. I went to Trader Joe's and bought 2 packs of Empire kosher chicken, you know the one that's a whole chicken cut into 8 pieces and some ribs. The ribs were in place of pork neck bones. I can only find those at the Asian market and figured the ribs would work for soup just as well. I got home and broke open the chicken, took off the skin, trimmed the fat rinsed and dried. Then I poured kosher salt into a bowl and got to work. I salted, wrapped and bagged the chicken into portions for chicken rice. Then I did the same with the ribs. Then I spent the rest of the day thinking about what soup I was going to make with the ribs. Maybe I'll make sae mae tong? Maybe I'll make Lisa's soup again. I also thought a lot about the salted chicken and how it was going to be so easy to make chicken rice on one of those work nights that I'm exhausted. I'm so giddy. Think I'm going to go to 99 Ranch and get some more bones to salt next week. Should I salt a fish while I'm at it?

5 comments:

lishapisa said...
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lishapisa said...

I go through the same thoughts myself!! but for me it is limited as my fridge do not have much room ( It will change after i move !!)
back to the preping the meats, it is great to have it already there especially when you're in the mood for a certain recipe without making time to go to the market and sometime the feeling to cook just disappears by getting distracting or your favorite show is on etc...so yes good to be well stock!

lishapisa said...

"distracted"

biggiefood said...

i love salted chicken rice... it's soooo easy and so yummy...

lishapisa said...

When you make salted chicken rice , have you try adding other ingredients? Just a thought , I love haam gai faan! I might try adding sliced lop churn n mushroom.. What do u think will go well with the salted CHICKEN?