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Skriven 2007-08-13 15:11:07 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 18233 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: trip 886
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 MLoo> One of the few bargains to be had at the Giant Food is
 MLoo> chicken thighs - I cut the skin into strips and render
 MLoo> it, using the resulting fat to brown the chicken, then
 MLoo> proceeding however I want, there being the wonderful
 MLoo> by-product of chicken chicharrones. Two months ago the

ahh... another who has found the delicacies of fried chicken skins... some time
back, when i had what was supposedly a significant other, i was making the
obiquious chicken'n'mushroom soup fixings... SSO was always whining at me about
leaving the skins on the chicken... "it's fattening" was the all time favorite
excuse... so this time, i decided to oblige her and also do something for
myself... so i pulled the skins off, trimmed'em down a tad and put them in the
pot on medium heat... once they were nicely done, i removed them to a napkined
plate and applied a bit of salt to them... then i plopped the skinned bird
meat, thighs IIRC, into the hot chicken grease and gave them a nice browning...
after which they were moved to the crockpot with the mushroom soup going in
it... i poured the liquids into a smaller container which went into the freezer
so as to be able to seperate off most of the fat... i left bout 1/3rd of the
fat and everything else went into the crock with the rest...

the real fun came when i carried my chicken chicharrones into the livingroom to
munch on while waiting on the chicken to brown... SSO's rather finicky daughter
asked what i had and promptly turned her nose up at it... however, this, at the
time, 18yo adores porkskins and after a minute or two of watching me eating
these, she asked for a sample... they were still nice and warm, too ;)  let's
just say that there was a small battle for the balance of them and guess who
decided to help me working in the kitchen a bit more... this after always
saying that she'd never work in the kitchen because it was gross working with
raw meats... it was all too funny when this was pointed out to her several
months later while she was skinning the bird parts in anticipation of chicken
chicharrones O:)

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