Chicken is my absolute favorite food in the entire world. I would eat chicken three meals a day, every day of the week if I could. I know. BORING. Unfortunately, I have trouble buying quality chicken. Did you know that all the packaged chicken in the meat department of your grocery store arrives frozen solid? They don't call it frozen, though. It's "treated" to prevent contamination. Of course, if you drop a 5 pound "treated" chicken on your foot, you could break a toe. Don't ask me how I know that.
So chicken purchasing is tricky. If I want to cook some chicken today, it can't be frozen. I mean, "treated". If it is "treated" to toe-breaking levels, I may not be able to cook it for several days. And if chicken is on sale and I buy extra for the freezer, I'm essentially re-freezing meat that has already thawed once. Today, all I wanted to do was throw my package of chicken thighs in the crock-pot with my homemade SCD barbecue sauce. No such luck. I bought the chicken yesterday, and although it was thawed, the date was good until tomorrow. I opened the fridge this morning and almost fell over from the smell of rotten meat!
I should buy local chicken. We are lucky enough to have a few sources nearby. But local chicken is expensive- more than twice what I would pay at the grocery store. And local chicken is small. I would need to roast 2 (maybe even 3!) to feed my family and have some for lunch the next day. Obviously, I wouldn't be eating it for every meal, or every day, or even every week!
Z, my youngest, was happy tonight's chicken was a bust. He's not big on meat consumption. He asked for pancakes instead, and we all ate them happily with some crispy bacon. Maybe we'll just start eating more bacon!
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