Delicacy

[summer_jackel]

Dover the rooster became the best chicken dinner I think I've ever had. He was delicious, nice and flavorful, a bit richer and darker than store bought meat, even Rocky (local semi-freerange chicken). I don't usually like dark meat, either.

So, if you want really delicious gourmet chicken, it is apparently best to raise it yourself. I may get some meat birds now; I was already thinking of it.

Thanks, little guy.

Comments

[stoda.livejournal.com]

All food you raise yourself is better. True for turnips, tomatoes, turkeys. :)

[kynekh-amagire.livejournal.com]

This is extremely true for me also, although as a dedicated fisherman back in the day, I expand the category to encompass "food that I went to some serious trouble to acquire and prepare for the table".

[stoda.livejournal.com]

One of the finer things about living on the coast was spearfishing.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I really prefer distance from my food. If I was involved in creating it, I usually am too disgusted by the thought of eating it to eat it. I need to try not to think about where my food comes from. I want to pretend my food spontaneously generated neat and clean in a supermarket. It's better for my sanity, since I can't give up eating.

Being involved in the food creation process is what turned me off some of the foods I don't eat. I can't afford to let that happen more.

[saigh-allaidh.livejournal.com]

"If people knew what chicken actually tasted like, they wouldn't say 'blank tastes like chicken.'" I have no idea who said that, or something like it, but it was on some show about chickens. And so true.

I think it's very important to be involved with your food, we raise chickens and get as much of the rest of our meat locally from folks we know. We get raw milk from a local farmer. We raise egg birds, but do eat most of the boys, with the occasional breeding rooster left. From friends who raise meat birds, I suggest NOT getting the usual Cornish-cross breeds, which grow too fast and probably won't be that different from what you buy commercially. There are, however, older, slower growing breeds. But me, I like my Dorkings and am happy to go back to them (for various reasons we ended up with varied layer-crosses) ...nice for eggs and meat. Not that the layer crosses were so bad either for meat, but they don't brood and I prefer having the chicks raised by hens and not me, too much work...hopefully this will be out last time.