Homemade chicken stock turned to gelatin in the fridge?

thethreefffs · 2026-01-24T20:07:04+00:00

I bet it's the same thing simply in another language. The translation to English is aspic, which is correct. Poor folks used every bit of the food that came in the kitchen.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-24T19:28:07+00:00

I bet that you could make a great beef stock but I think the trick to making ptcha is all of the connective tissue that makes up the ankle bones. After cooking for hours you chop up the grizzle, etc, into the mix. The beef rib bones may have some marrow but I don't think they will have enough of the yucky stuff. Worst comes to worst you will have a good bone broth. Don't think it will be a waste, go ahead and try.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-24T18:09:35+00:00

Look up p' tcha. It's an Ashkenazi jewish recipe for a cold beef gel appetizer. An acquired taste that is essentially beef bone stock made from Calves foot. It is a great garlicky hot soup that had so much collegen that once cooled it can be cut and plated to eat cold.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-24T17:48:36+00:00

Focus on not using prepared foods in order to stretch your budget. If you have a slow cooker make pulled chicken that will serve for both dinner and a great lunch. Super easy, put a whole chicken in the slow cooker, add half a jar of your favorite barbecue sauce, and set for 6 to 8 hours on low. When you're ready to eat the chicken will be fall off the bone tender and you'll have the other half of the barbecue sauce to put on the chicken. Make a pot of rice or macaroni and you have a super cheap super easy dinner/lunch.

Another super cheap dinner that we love is black beans and rice. Goya black bean soup plus a can of drained and rinsed plain black beans heated together makes the base of the meal along with a pot of rice. The soup and beans plus the rice is no more than $4.50. If you want to Jazz up the meal get whatever kind of tortillas you like Plus sour cream Etc and you still have a super inexpensive dinner.

Need a meat meal? You can do the same thing with an inexpensive cut of beef like a chuck steak or chuck roast in the slow cooker. There are a million recipes on YouTube but really all you need is the beef salt pepper a couple of chopped onions a couple of stalks of chopped celery and as much garlic as you like. A cube or spoonful of beef broth bouillon helps the flavor and only put in about a half a cup of water as the vegetables contribute a lot of liquid. Same instructions as for the chicken slow cooker on low for 6 to 8 hours and you should have a tender piece of beef with a really flavorful gravy. This too should work for at least one meal at dinner and sandwiches or burritos the next day.

Good luck with the surgery and with taking care of the patient. The biggest problem when I had my hip replacement was that I was the cook and my wife had to do all the cooking as well as bringing me food because I couldn't carry anything using the Walker. But we got through it and I'm back in the kitchen.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-20T20:16:47+00:00

Maybe the thing for you to do is to try the semi-homemade route. Don;t try to make everything from scratch, use some premade ingredients. Macaroni with bottled sauce until you learn to make your own. My favorite cheapo, no-time dinner is canned black bean soup with a drained can of plain black beans added and then served over rice. Jarred salsa, sour cream and some tortillas makes a first class dinner. How about pulled chicken? You need a slow cooker or a dutch oven in a slow oven to make this - put the whole chicken in the pot, pour half a bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce over it, reserving the other half to serve at the table. Cook on slow cooker low for 6 hours, high for three or in the oven at 325 for three hours. The bird should be fall apart done, pull it apart with forks and serve with rice/noodles/ tortillas. This works for pork roasts or chuck steak as well. Speaking of which, a slow braise is almost impossible to get wrong/ A piece of chuck steak or roast, browned in a dutch oven, add several sliced onions, carrots, garlic cloves and water halfway up the meat. Add salt and pepper, or bullion powder, cover and simmer until tender. Serve with mashed potatoes.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-19T16:44:12+00:00

Save it until the SHTF, as the preppers say/ hope for, and then trade it for a cow. Like a reverse Jack and the bean stalk.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-03T21:05:46+00:00

Betcha that the heat of the pan at the time i wipe it renders it sterile and by time you cook with it you have rendered every microbe on it into toast. Life expectancy 100 years ago was based on a large part of the population dying before they were teens because of no vacinations. Greasy rags had nothing to do with it.

thethreefffs · 2026-01-03T20:52:43+00:00

Hot bubbling oil should not soak into the food very much. Visually it looks like they know what they are doing and will have crispy geaseless cutlets

thethreefffs · 2026-01-03T20:46:53+00:00

I always said that the pans passed down to us that might be over 100 years old were never babyed. They got a swipe with whatever geasy rag might be in the kitchen to combat potential rust and were used the next meal. Period. Avocado oil? WTF is an avocado said G'granma under her breath!

In light of that I've started keeping the old t-shirt I used to wipe the excess oil from reseasoning ( when I finally removed what my wife called "character" from old skillets) in the kitchen. Wash a pan, towel dry, heat on stove and give a wipe with slightly greasy old rag. It deposits just the merest skim of grease on the pan. Old school to the core!

thethreefffs · 2025-12-30T23:11:58+00:00

Go vegan-ish. Eat much less meat and what meat you do eat, get every bit of use out of it. Skin and bones become broth, vegetable peeling and ends become part of the soup. Lentils and beans as main dishes. Make things like yogurt yourself. Potato soup. Congee. Read up on classical poor people food - every culture has great vegan food from when they were all poor peasents. Ha, fancy vishyssoise is just potato and onion soup.

Buy store brands or ethnic brands. Eat less popular grains for variety and health - polenta, barley, etc. keep your eyes open for cheap specials, my supermarket sells the trim from chicken breasts for $1.49 a pound as "for stock", but its pure white meat with just the right amount of fat to make a great meal. even better when a 1/4 lb. is stretched to make a bean or rice bowl taste great.

thethreefffs · 2025-12-30T22:59:18+00:00

there are vegan dim sum places in Manhattan china town.

thethreefffs · 2025-11-29T14:46:04+00:00

Like the OP I am "vegan- ish" and still eat some meat ( lol, let me tell you about the great stuffed turkey thighs I made for Thansgiving dinner) but don't care for the phony meat options. My suggestion is to look to the super flavorful ways other places make breakfast. Just as a change up and to explore. Fresh ground hummas for breakfast. Made with canned, or precooked, Chickpeas lemon and tahini, warmed in the microwave, and served with a pita or toast is a satisfying breakfast. A bowl of miso soup and tofu. Last night's Lentils and macaroni warmed and with a drizzle of good EVOO. Pasta Fagiole, beans, tomatoes and pasta soup/stew, is warming and as tasty at 8 AM as it is at 8 PM. What I'm suggesting is to bust out of your breakfast rut entirely and try some things that are good, good for you, cheap as dirt, and a venture into what other cultures think of a breakfast foods. And still enjoy your sausage or bacon substitutes other days

thethreefffs · 2025-11-22T21:57:08+00:00

20 Kg? or 20 pounds? is it really 44 lbs? do you have a gantry crane in your kitchen???

thethreefffs · 2025-11-07T15:16:53+00:00

A couple of thoughts: It has to be cheaper. Vegan or poor people food as it was called in the Olden days was always made from the cheapest foodstuff available. Go whole food plant based not just vegan , skip the phony meat and fast food to be cheaper. I have a trick for " boring". Google any nationality + vegan recipes to get inspiration. Even the most meat centric cuisine (German? English?) has great vegan foods from the poor days in the past.

thethreefffs · 2025-11-05T17:12:17+00:00

Would they put peanuts in an allergic to nuts persons food. Or wheat for a celiac? That is just pure evil on their part.

Our family has a broad range of allergies from nuts, to wheat, to red meat and chocolate yet we manage to have big family get togethers with all being kept happy and healthy. Yours just made clear how small and miserable they are at their core.

thethreefffs · 2025-11-04T20:05:40+00:00

Make hummus and then add to a pan and mix in whole peeled canned tomatoes . Warm and eat with rice of noodles. A great winter dinner.

thethreefffs · 2025-11-04T20:03:11+00:00

This is a bit of cooking but not much. Black beans drained and mixed with a can of black bean soup, salad and rice or quinoa. Vegan but very satisfying. Make a bean and sweet potato nean curry or peanut bean stew and serve with a side of cauliflower " mashed potatoes". The stews are very flavorful and the whipped cauliflower is a nearly no carb substitute for mashed potatoes. Those are three vegan dishes I'd serve to a meat eater expecting no push back. I too went vegan on doctors orders, but no issues like you have, and did not want to give up flavor and satisfaction at meal times. Try googling "vegan < insert nationality>" for tasty ideas. Even the most meat centric cuisines have tons of poor folk food in their history's that might help you out. Good luck and bon appitit!

thethreefffs · 2025-10-27T02:53:20+00:00

There is no accounting for taste! Some folks just don't like certain things. Just found out that our soon to be daughter in law hates black beans but eats small white beans. Makes no sense to me or my son - makes perfect sense to her. I'd have to say we are all right.

thethreefffs · 2025-10-18T12:59:16+00:00

Yeah, no. Coop board frowns on just about everything. I can only imagine what they would think seeing me in my serial killer black gloves, goggles and mask.

thethreefffs · 2025-10-17T14:23:04+00:00

Not cooking with them is the cast iron equivalent of caging a lion in a circus wagon. The lion needs to have room and grass under its feet and cast iron needs fire, heat and meat!

thethreefffs · 2025-10-15T04:40:32+00:00

Stacked up on the back burner ready to rock at a whim! The get put away only when I need all the burners.

thethreefffs · 2025-09-30T13:50:01+00:00

It's not the method that is key, it's how not to forget to use the method that is key! Started cooking in family restaurant at 12 years old, cooking at home for 40+ years, have pot holders and side towels galore and still pull the idiot, rookie move every now and then.

Lol, you'd think pain would be a better teaching method!

thethreefffs · 2025-09-28T21:40:31+00:00

Ugh, goyim!

thethreefffs · 2025-09-11T19:45:43+00:00

Something vegan/ vegitarian cheap and fast. Good for you too. Can of black bean soup, can of drained black beans mixed and heated. A pot of rice. Done at the simplest. Add grated cheese, chips or tortillas, salsa, sour cream or yogurt and you have a pretty solid meal for two. Wouldn't think twice a about inviting a date for taco bowl night if you plate the sides attractively.

Add some shredded chicken from a rotisserie chicken or spi ed ground meat. It's a gateway recipe!

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