No Longer Chicken About Chicken

For Christmas, I gave A a subscription to Top Chef University, an online set of cooking courses taught by Top Chef contestants. Ever since we got into cooking shows like Iron Chef, Chopped, and MasterChef, we have been expanding our culinary skills. One thing we had not tackled was breaking down a whole chicken. You could say we were "chicken" about it. (Sorry, couldn't resist!)

Thankfully Top Chef University had a whole video on how to accomplish it. First, we bought our (unlucky) chicken and rinsed it clean.

Then we got down to business. By "we", I mean mostly A. However, the photos end here because I jumped in to help. It was not as easy as Chef Kevin Gillespie made it look! We own a very good chef's knife yet had difficulties getting through the chicken.

But we eventually succeeded and threw all the gross parts and bones into a pot to make our own stock. How fancy!

Now we have frozen cubes of stock just waiting to enhance our future meals!