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I've had butternut squash ravioli before and they were really tasty. My pelmini were stuffed with ground turkey and onion. I'm going to try making some stuffed with pizza next weekend, hopefully.
 
Gravy

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It's chicken butchering day today.

I'm mentioning it here in the cooking thread because I think every cook should know where there food is coming from. You can learn a lot about an animal when you're killing and prepping it, and it gives you a little more respect for the ingredients.

I guess if you're vegan, go pull some weeds and fuck yourself.
 
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Uncle Gravy_sl said:
It's chicken butchering day today.

I'm mentioning it here in the cooking thread because I think every cook should know where there food is coming from. You can learn a lot about an animal when you're killing and prepping it, and it gives you a little more respect for the ingredients.

I guess if you're vegan, go pull some weeds and fuck yourself.
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tell us more about chicken butchering day.

Did you raise the chicken? Will you kill it yourself? Details.
 
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I find my level of respect for the ingredient is just enough that I don't have to kill what I'm eating. I got other things to do, man.
 
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I have remorse for the animals that I eat. I really can't help it, I'm an extremely empathetic person to begin with.

I will say this has not dissuaded me from eating animals though...
 
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Growing up we raised chickens and geese for eating, and we butchered them ourselves. As a teen I worked at a mom and pop beef farm that slaughtered/cut the animals, so I know the whole process, from birth to steak. I'm doing what I can to give my own kids that perspective, too. I figure it's a good thing to have detailed knowledge of how the meat gets on to your plate. It certainly prevents me from buying products from the mass farms.
 
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Butcher here had rabbit the other day so I got some and tried a stew, it wasn't bad but not really great either, was a bit disappointed. Next time I think I will stick to roasting, its tough to find recipes tho. Could be months before I find it again, its a shame some good meats like that are so hard to find.
 
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Azeth_sl said:
tell us more about chicken butchering day.

Did you raise the chicken? Will you kill it yourself? Details.
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Butchering chickens happens about every 9-10 weeks. It happens on my wife's cousin's farm. It used to be 200 chickens per butchering, now it's down to 100.

You basically stick the chickens in a big funnel, cut the heads off and let them bleed out. Then you run them through the feather mother-plucker. It's a drum with rubber paddles on it that beats the feathers off.

Then comes the fun stuff. You cut the chicken's feet off, then start to em-bowel the bird, saving the hearts, gizzards, and livers. Then you scrape the lungs out. It's basically done then, just a finish cleaning and plucking any strays, then let them air dry, then into the freezer. Sometimes we save the feet, which involves peeling and is a pain in the ass. Then you cut the gizzards apart, scrape out all the nasty shit (whatever they've been eating) and peel a membrane off. A lot of work for the crappiest piece of the chicken, imo.

We had about 5 kids and 5 adults, and it took about 4 hours. Out of the 100, we butchered 73. A cold night a few weeks ago killed 11. Coyotes and dogs got the rest.



Fuck all that, I want Adebisi's rib goodness.
 
chaos

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That site is expensive, 60 for 3 meals that feed 2 isn't too bad compared to eating out, but compared to shopping yourself that is a lot. Especially if you are feeding 4-5-6-whatever instead of just 2.
 
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We've made some of the Blue Apron recipes since they publish them every week and they've been decent. We've never actually purchased a meal, though, since we can just source everything locally and I'm not quite that lazy.
 
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Half the fun (for me) of cooking is going out and buying the ingredients; whether it's just to the grocery store or you make the extra effort to hit a farmer's market, picking your ingredients is a very enjoyable part of the process. I wouldn't want to be hand delivered the exact amounts of the exact ingredients needed to cook an exact recipe.
 
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I agree - and another part of the fun is just stocking up on various ingredients, and seeing what you can make that's tasty and healthy with the ingredients you've got on hand, depending on your mood.
 
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