there are several recipes for chicken feet, and if cooked enough make
wonderful pet snacks, you will have to google for them, and i know it has
been discussed on rfc but its not something that ever attracted me, Lee
"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:19:23 -0700, "Cheri" >
> wrote:
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>>"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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>>> I am only just starting to eat real food again. It is great! I get
>>> "full" on just a couple of tablespoons of anything.
>>>
>>> Evelyn
>>
>>Are you still interested in cooking for others?
>>
>>Cheri
>
>
> Hi Cheri,
>
> Yes, in fact it is easier, since I don't eat much now, I can focus on
> getting the meal together for others. Just now I am only feeding
> hubby, so it is even easier.
>
> Yesterday I got a very good deal when I shopped for my cottage cheese
> and yogurt and such. I noticed that a local market had huge bags of
> chicken legs (grade a) for sale very cheap. For about $3.40 I got 8
> very fresh chicken legs with thighs. (Wendy will know about ADAMS
> market).
>
> I went home and made an awesome chicken-vegetable soup. I made 8
> quarts of really delicious soup out of it. It helped me get rid of a
> lot of soup veggies that were laying around a while. Still good, but
> not for much longer if I didn't use them up.
>
> At the store, I noticed there was also for sale, some chicken feet. I
> have heard that they are good in soup, so I bought one package and
> tossed them in with the chicken legs when I made the soup. It was
> wonderful!!! It jelled up when cold very nicely. Very rich.
>
> I also put in that soup, two cans of diced tomatoes, 1 cup marsala
> wine, salt, pepper, dried thyme, red pepper flakes, a bunch of fresh
> basil my neighbor gave me, a sprinkle of dried oregano. Chopped
> onion, celery (with the tops), carrots, one parsnip, a couple of
> smallish potatoes.
>
> First I cooked the legs and feet in the water along with the wine,
> herbs and canned tomatoes. When they were cooking, I chopped all
> the vegetables, and added them as I went along. Because I need
> everything chopped very small, I used my food processor to chop the
> vegetables, by pulsing it. Ordinarily I would use about a half inch
> or less, dice.
>
> When the legs seemed to be separating from the bone a bit, I removed
> them to a platter, let them cool down, and removed the meat from the
> bones and chopped it in nice bite size pieces, to add back to the pot.
> (Tossed away all the skin and bones).
>
> I removed the chicken feet and put them aside also, but there didn't
> seem to be much I could do with them, so I tossed them too. But it
> did make an incredibly rich broth. I can see why people use them for
> broth!
>
> I added some cooked barley and a can of kidney beans to the pot and
> let it all cool down till I could put it away in the freezer. Good
> lunches for the future!
>
> Today we had some for lunch and it was absolutely AWESOME. Because
> it is mostly liquid I was able to eat about 1 cup of it. I have to
> chew the meat and barley and veggie bits very thoroughly. But it was
> really good!!!
>
> I make incredibly delicious soups, if I do say so myself.
>
> We share a quart of soup every day at lunch, sometimes also splitting
> a sandwich or a buttered roll. I can't eat that now, so hubby ate a
> whole roll himself with it.
>
> Evelyn
>