After thinking that I was going to start this process today, I realized that I needed to take a step back and actually plan this endeavor a bit better.
Tonight was going to be spit pea soup with smoked ham hock. It uses fresh peas as well as dried split peas and lots of other goodness.
The problem? It also uses homemade chicken stock and I haven't made it yet.
So, I'll be starting with the staples (i.e. stocks, sauces, etc.) and then working the recipes.
Instead of ad hoc tonight, it'll be an original recipe (several actually) for my crew--chicken.
Yep, I needed to buy whole chickens because I can't find anybody who actually process their own birds around here. That's okay, I can take a chicken down into pieces pretty easily and then I'll have all the good stuff I need to make stock tomorrow. The good news is that the brand new Costco up the street had whole chickens for 89-cents a pound.
It's not even 3:00 yet and I'm already starting to work up components for tonight and getting the knives nice and sharp.
So, Chef Keller will have to wait another day but his time will come in my kitchen.
Thanks for reading,
B
No comments:
Post a Comment