I’m right now thawing out some chicken in the microwave, and it smells good!
I think I could eat chicken morning, noon and night, seven days a week, that’s how much I like it, especially the dark meat.
There is a chicken place down the road that makes really great chicken. They make it much better than I do as I’ve never dared attempt to make it fried yet, which is my favorite. Yummy!
Mostly I will cook a chicken in a crockpot and add a can of Camble’s mushroom soup. I like to slow cook it that way until the yummy hind legs easily break off with a knife. There are fewer meals more yummy IMHO than a chicken dinner along with buttered bread and a glass of milk.
I like Foster Farms the best, though there might even be better, higher quality brands out there, don’t know. Tyson is the worst. (It’s heart-breaking how they run their employees into the ground there, don’t even let them go to the restrooms unless they’re on break.)
You know, it wasn’t that long ago in human history your average person in this world didn’t take eating lightly; technology and know-how have spoiled many of us living in these times.
If there’s anything I’d change in the chicken processing world it would be that every chicken in the world would be treated humanely, none of this business of cramming them into small, dirty cages! (And yes, I’d gladly be willing to pay more, no problem.)
Is chicken also at or near the top of your favorite food?
Yeah chicken is really good particularly if it’s not intensively farmed chicken. There is a chain here in Australia called Lenards that sells all varieties of ready to cook chicken. They have chicken cordon blue, rolled stuffed breasts, marinated pieces, stir fries, kebabs, enchiladas and more. I can just pick up something take it home and have it ready in less than an hour.
Take care with using the microwave for defrosting it often half cooks the outside before the inside is defrosted so I never use it.
I think chicken would be the most bland, boring food if it weren’t for the tastless turkey. Yeah, I know, your grandmother cooks a great one. It all tastes like generic, pointless meat to me.
I will make an exception for good fired chicken though.
Chicken is not a great food, IMHO. Chicken is a food that I eat maybe 6 times a year, usually because I’m visiting someone that has cooked it for me. One or twice a year I may get a craving for greasy fried chicken and go to Popeye’s.
I almost agree with you. I don’t know what it is, but I swear American chickens have had all the taste bred out of them. Eggs, too. When I lived in Euroland, I swear, the poultry and pork there tasted so much more flavorful out there. And the eggs. Hungarian yolks were a deep, vibrant orange and tasted like the very essence of egg itself. Here? Even free-range eggs have a pathetic, lemon yellow yolk–at least the ones available at my supermarket.
I love chicken. I got a lot of practice cooking it because I don’t really eat plants and for a while I was dating someone who didn’t eat mammal.
I think my favorite is whole roasted chicken. You make a blend of garlic, pepper, rosemary, sage, lemon juice and soy sauce and squirt that under the skin, then rub the skin with the above plus olive oil. It’s oh so good. But chicken is also truly versatile. Pounded, dredged in flour and pan fried with a marsala sauce, or something as simple as just seared with salt and pepper, it’s delicious. Or you can dip it in flour, then egg, then bread crumbs and fry it in oil. It has a subtle flavor, so can be used in almost anything.
Back when I lived in the islands I practically lived on chicken; both barbecued from Chicken Man or curried in the traditional West Indian roti. I will admit, for gourmet appeal I do prefer duck, but for every day meals nothing beats chicken.
