Favorite chicken noodle soup recipe.... Go!

Buy 2 chickens. Old hens if possible. Spatchcock them at the spine and then sear the skin. Use bacon fat and make sure to salt liberally. Flip chickens over and lay skin side up in a pan that can collect juices. Under the chickens have celery, carrots, garlic clovers cut in half and onion. A little more EVO on top and roast slowly until just under done temp.

Let cool enough to separate bones and chicken. Put bones and juices in a roasting pan and add enough water to cover about half the bones salt bones and add any herbs you may want. Splash or 2 of soy sauce. I reccomend taragon as one of the herbs. Salt and pepper well, then roast bones in oven. Once bones are roasted put into a large pasta pot. If you have the straining liner use it.

Fill pot with water and vigerous bring to boil, then gentle bubbling simmer. Simmer for an hour or so with a closed lid. Taste broth and fix what ever needs to be fixed. Then strain. Bring broth to a boil and ladle over rice noodles and chicken. If you want more traditional simmer carrots and later celery. then add broth and veg into a bowl with cooked noodles (fat home made egg noodles are best). Make sure to keep the noodles and soup separate until serving.

two major problems. 1 - use duck fat, 2-don't ever boil it'll cloud it all up. Simmer is fine.

Huh..... I don't know about the clouding up thing. I never noticed...probably don't care much either. I also don't know where to get duck fat. If I did I would fill a bathtub and confit myself.

Easiest way to not cloud up is to simmer long and low with JUST the animal parts. Veggies take nearly no time and when they breakdown too much you end up with a stock that is clouded as well. The clouding doesn't lead to as nice of a mouth feel either. Raw animal coulds less than cooked. Definitely start all cold with cold water. Bring to near boil on stove and then plop in a 180F oven for 24 hours or use a slow cooker. About the only use I can think of for a slow cooker. Okay, one other. Fermentation pot if you've got control of a really low setting.

And for duck fat...

http://www.amazon.com/Fat-Rendered-Duck-Lb-Pail/dp/B003UMZADC/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1367173037&sr=8-9&keywords=duck+fat

Ought to be enough for a bathtub

If it does cloud up just run it through a filter bag. Or just use cloudy broth.

If sean ever posts that place to buy the epic mesh cone thingy that I always forget the name of....

http://www.amazon.com/Matfer-17360-Exoglass-Bouillon-Strainer/dp/B00069ZUXW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1367173722&sr=8-2&keywords=chinois

I have a different pestle, but those don't matter so much.

Chinois nor filter will remove cloudiness.

I have a 4 stage filtration system that would remove particulates and cloudiness. It uses a 110v pump (you could use a pump sprayer). It passed thru a 50 micron strainer, a 5 micron filter, a 1 micron filter, and finally a .5 micron filter. Minus the pump I have about 100 bucks in it.

Ha. Bigger dork than me. Nice.

I get all my filtration stuff from. filtersfast.com

I use it for my wine

enamel is drying teh slow.

Kickin' ass on the projects though. Have a second while I wait for the wifey to return with some tack cloth.

This:

Is about to become this:

Using more of a walnut stain on the maple though.

The other closet will just get some built in shelves for the microwave and such.

The second closet used to be the coat closet. Expanding the kitchen into it and making it the pantry. The storage closet in the laundry room is being turned into the coat closet. WAY, WAY better use of space.

Why are 20gal stainless sinks so fucking expensive?

Because its stainless.

Kitchen sink in stainless $100. Laundry tub $600. FUCK THAT>

Why are 20gal stainless sinks so pucking expensive?

Stop being so cheap and get a hand beat copper one to match the cookware.

It is for the laundry room of the house we are selling.

I do need some more copper though. Don't want to fly to France for a diffuser plate...

Go price stainless shower pieces. I broke down last month and remodeled the ole lady's part of the bathroom. The parts alone for the 10 piece brushed stainless rain system was nearly 6 grand.

I'd let my old lady bath in the lake for that

I bought a new gun. So in her view it was only fair that she got a new toy too

Kitchen sink in stainless $100. Laundry tub $600. FUCK THAT>

I would NEVER buy a $100 stainless sink. 

I have a 4 stage filtration system that would remove particulates and cloudiness. It uses a 110v pump (you could use a pump sprayer). It passed thru a 50 micron strainer, a 5 micron filter, a 1 micron filter, and finally a .5 micron filter. Minus the pump I have about 100 bucks in it.

 

Filtering it down that much will just make it really expensive water

.5 micron can remove some color and body. But not much taste.

 

 

 

Damn you rotator cuff, I wanna ride!!!

Do some damage to it?

I think I tore it. It hurts pretty bad. If I sneeze or cough it knocks the breath out of me it hurts so bad. Just normal activity makes it a bit sore, but sudden, jarring moves are agonizing.

Yuk. I'm sorry. Going to see an ortho or GP doc?

 

Nope. I hate doctors and I don't feel like being cut on. I am doing mild exercises, heat and cold, and isolation.

 

HI, BILLY MAYS HERE WITH ANOTHER AMAZING EXERCISE

 

Kitchen sink in stainless $100. Laundry tub $600. FUCK THAT>

I would NEVER buy a $100 stainless sink. 

its for a laundry room in a house I am selling....

Is it normal to be absolutely scared to death of moving on? I've love and hated parts of my last (almost) 8 years on active duty, and as my time comes closer to a close I find myself more uncertain of what to do with my life than ever. While I know what I would like to do with my life, I am just uncertain of how to proceed, if the juice will be worth the squeeze and so much more.

J