The Front Porch Swing

[perchie.girl]

Quote: LOL we call it Parsons Nose.... MY Absolute favorite on turkey OMG.... chicken too And all the back meat on Chicken.... Yummo.
deb

 

[Triple Willow]

I know...they are so much uglier than a liver or a heart.    Poor things.  I don't think they get enough positive press and have decided to be their new spokesperson so that the world will stop discriminating against the ugly chicken parts.  They have flavor too and don't deserve this awful discrimination and hatred. 

I'm even thinking of having a one million kidney march on the capital to protest this...anyone having chicken kidneys they would like to donate for this tribute to this poorly treated organ group, please send them~fresh, mind you~to my address so that I can properly organize them for the protest. 

Pleeease don't report me for this hate crime! hahaha

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: LOL.... butternut Squash is in almost all the cans of pumpkin if you read the lable closeley. Something to do with the fact that it cans better and makes a better pumpkin pie. http://learningandyearning.com/your-canned-pumpkin-probably-isnt

deb

 

[Triple Willow]

I know what you mean ... the search feature on this website isn't great. I usually have more luck going back out to google to search, and then it takes me to the right spot over here. I also have trouble finding just the thing I knew I saw before out there in the rest of the Internets, too. And I can become distracted puppy-like with all the flashy shiny stuff out there and forget what I was doing ... Mmmmm. Oh look! Custard!

Yep exactly! LOL I did find your custard recipe, can't wait to try it.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Got any extra custard there Leslie? By the way, I think it would work great with a butternut squash. They're both winter squash so I'd say go for it.

I have a feeling there will always be custard as long as there are eggs and milk and sugar. It is really very easy to make. I love how few ingredients/shopping is involved! It's been a revelation for me. Pretty soon the sounds of "Oh no! Here comes -Lj with her custard and 'pretty' eggs again. Everyone hide!" will precede me through the village.

I haven't tried the butternut squash yet. I had another custard experiment to do for "baseline" calibration. Now I'm ready to experiment.

We have a rule in my house about No Ick Face when it comes to fresh food & ingredients. It is too easy to get yourself (and other people) psyched into thinking perfectly nutritious things are "gross". Especially unfamiliar things. So while informed critical responses are welcome, dramatic reactions are not. It has served me very well to be able to try new things with a (relatively) open mind and pleasant expression. Especially when presented to me on a plate ... but being too shocked/repulsed by something can be extremely offensive to others, or put them off.

That said, I think I'd have a VERY hard time being polite about one of those fermented chicks in an egg delicacies. And the smell of some rotten fish delicacies is hard not to cringe at ...

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Yep exactly! LOL I did find your custard recipe, can't wait to try it.

I think, honestly, Eggs, Sugar, Milk is recipe enough once you've figured out the technique. I tried it with different quantities of eggs & sugar to milk, and both were gorgeous and delicious. It is a very simple & forgiving recipe.

Heat, but don't boil the milk; beat, but don't whip the eggs. Stir the hot milk into the eggs slowly so you don't start cooking the eggs. Cook it in the oven on low heat in a hot-water bath, remove before it is completely set. You could probably even steam it in a pot on top of the stove or camp fire. Just use any old heat-proof dish, one big one or lots of little ones, it doesn't matter.

I'm going to shut up about the custard now. But if anyone needs some encouragement, just message me and I'll be happy to help.

 

[LeslieDJoyce]

Anyone else steal the oysters off the back of a roasted bird before anyone sees? You flip the bird back over and nobody knows ...

If you buy the fully roasted bird at Costco, you can perform this operation in the parking lot on the way to your car.

 

[LindaB220]

LOL.... butternut Squash is in almost all the cans of pumpkin if you read the lable closeley. Something to do with the fact that it cans better and makes a better pumpkin pie. http://learningandyearning.com/your-canned-pumpkin-probably-isnt

deb

Good post!!! I keep getting lost in recipes.

 

[Beekissed]

If only kidneys weren't such a PITA to get out of the bird during processing. I have been known to suck the "kidney pâté " out of the backbone a time or two myself. It is very satisfying. But it isn't very delicate. The organs have so many nutrients, I'm sure there is a reason some of us crave them.

So BK ... I know you're into chicken feet broth, but have you ever used the heads? I haven't been able to bring myself to do that. Yet.

I've got two batches of beef bones on their third pass through my crock pots. I'm going to learn to make Pho (Vietnamese soup), but instead of following the official recipe for the broth base, I'm going to be using bone broths. The second and third passes through the crock pots the bones offer up a clearer broth ... I'm thinking that's a great place to start when making Pho.

Anyone want my recipe for Puerto Rican Green Banana Salad ... which is traditionally served with chicken gizzards?

I've never been able to get around cooking animal heads due to the snot passages and gelatinous eyeball goo therein...I have an issue with textures and snot. Snot and lung butter has always been my special nemesis in my nursing career. I can clean it, suck it up with cannulas, even empty great buckets of it in the toilet(if I hold my breath and don't look at it) and all that jazz but my insides are hurling all the while...you know how hard it is to gag and heave without showing it and putting a gentle smile on one's face? Have done that for years when I really wanted to do the "OH MY ICK, I'M GONNA BE SICK" dance all over the room.

Chicken snot? Not happenin'.

Pleeease don't report me for this hate crime! hahaha

I won't if you surrender all your orphan chicken kidneys to loving parents like myself so they can be properly cooked...uh....ahem... I mean...cared for in a loving home. I can see they get the proper love and attention they so rightly deserve. <sniff!> (that was a self-righteous sniff, BTW, indicating that I just have WAY more compassion than you do because I 'rescue' kidneys and take them into my home)

 

[Triple Willow]

I have a feeling there will always be custard as long as there are eggs and milk and sugar. It is really very easy to make. I love how few ingredients/shopping is involved! It's been a revelation for me. Pretty soon the sounds of "Oh no! Here comes -Lj with her custard and 'pretty' eggs again. Everyone hide!" will precede me through the village. 

I haven't tried the butternut squash yet. I had another custard experiment to do for "baseline" calibration. Now I'm ready to experiment. 

We have a rule in my house about No Ick Face when it comes to fresh food & ingredients. It is too easy to get yourself (and other people) psyched into thinking perfectly nutritious things are "gross". Especially unfamiliar things. So while informed critical responses are welcome, dramatic reactions are not. It has served me very well to be able to try new things with a (relatively) open mind and pleasant expression. Especially when presented to me on a plate ... but being too shocked/repulsed by something can be extremely offensive to others, or put them off. 

That said, I think I'd have a VERY hard time being polite about one of those fermented chicks in an egg delicacies. And the smell of some rotten fish delicacies is hard not to cringe at ...

Oh I agree about the "Ick Face". The worst offender in my family is a 50-something year old mother/grandmother. The contortions she will turn her face into is so embarrassing around other people! It doesn't matter where we happen to be at the time, a family gathering, a restaurant, ect. She starts that mess before the food ever touches her lips! Worse that a kid I tell ya! My mom has always had a saying about that, "don't turn your nose up". lol

I would probably try one of those eggs but I sure don't see me liking it but real bad smells, no no no. lol