Sunday, September 19, 2010
ok i dunno what overcame me yesterday, but i bought this whole chicken at the market. WHOLE chicken. you know with all the wings and legs attached. ok i wanted to make chicken soup, and supermarkets don't really have chicken with bones and i need the bones for the soup. but still!!! why oh why was i crazy enough to buy a whole chicken? then just now i took it out of the fridge and stared at it, not sure how am i supposed to magically transform the chicken-shaped mass of meat and bones into the normal chicken chunks we see in soup.
in the end, armed with a pathetic looking knife, i began to tackle the chicken. haiz... you know usually hawkers or your mum uses the huge 菜刀 to chop up the chicken. but i only have the medium sized one for veggies and fruits! T.T and i dunno where to begin! so i went for the obvious parts i.e. all the bits sticking out. took quite awhile cutting down the wings and drumsticks! and bones are so hard! but found out if i chop at the joints it's easier XD
right... after i finally got the 4 bits off, i like "ok, NOW what?" how are you supposed to know where to hack first?! and neither chicken nor knife were coorperating very well. in the end i had the break the bones by hand and then slice up the meat into reasonable looking pieces, which i promptly dumped into the pot.
ohohoh i hear the heavenly sound of my pressure cooker going off! which means the soup is done! ahh!!! self cooked chicken soup! haha i'm so proud of myself XDXD
wait. i put salt right?
in the end, armed with a pathetic looking knife, i began to tackle the chicken. haiz... you know usually hawkers or your mum uses the huge 菜刀 to chop up the chicken. but i only have the medium sized one for veggies and fruits! T.T and i dunno where to begin! so i went for the obvious parts i.e. all the bits sticking out. took quite awhile cutting down the wings and drumsticks! and bones are so hard! but found out if i chop at the joints it's easier XD
right... after i finally got the 4 bits off, i like "ok, NOW what?" how are you supposed to know where to hack first?! and neither chicken nor knife were coorperating very well. in the end i had the break the bones by hand and then slice up the meat into reasonable looking pieces, which i promptly dumped into the pot.
ohohoh i hear the heavenly sound of my pressure cooker going off! which means the soup is done! ahh!!! self cooked chicken soup! haha i'm so proud of myself XDXD
wait. i put salt right?
11:08:00 PM
