I may be strange but I love this part of chicken and turkey soup

[PurpleChicken]

One of my favorite parts of making a good soup or broth is picking
and cleaning the meat off the bones. Every little bit is a piece of one
of my birds and can't be wasted.

After I simmer a bird for 24 hours I put it on a cookie sheet and pick
all the meat out. The fatty meats go in one dish for the dogs, the bones
get chewed up by me or the dogs (very soft after 24 hours) and the good
meat goes back in the crock pot. It's sort of therapeutic for me when I
just sit down and pick the bones clean. Our dogs get excited too because
they know they have a treat coming.

 

[setter4]

We had turkey noodle soup for dinner today. My turkey wasn't picked quite as clean as yours looks...I took it down and let the hens finish cleaning it up.
The soup was wonderful and I have a bunch of stock left to make gravy for turkey and waffles tomorrow.
Love those leftovers!

 

[Renee]

I'm the same way.
I keep cooked chicken carcasses in the freezer until I have a few, then I brown the bones before I make stock from them. I use the shreds of meat etc. for dog food. So much better than that over-salted supermarket chicken broth!

 

[chickens4jojo]

Great idea & lucky dogs.

 

[chickenannie]

Very primal, PC.

(did I mention I can't stand doing that job! Always gotta get someone else to do it!)

 

[PurpleChicken]

Thanks for the responses. I always hated that part too but now there
is just something about it I love. Maybe it's just the fact I tell everyone
to leave me alone or maybe it's the way my dogs look at me.

I just love makin sure nothing goes to waste. My mom just shakes her
head when she visits thinking like "what happened to the spoiled
obnoxious and wasteful kid I raised?".

 

[PurpleChicken]

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I like that description chickenannie, it is sorta primal.

 

[redhen]

Dang!..i should have made soup with our leftovers!...

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[setter4]

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Now you'll be ready for Christmas soup! lol

 

[cackle]

My husband says when I get done picking the chicken from the bones there is nothing left for the dogs.