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10/15/10

matzo ball whaaaaa? *updated*

jordan is on the verge of death with some mystery illness.  actually, he's probably going to be okay, although i wasn't so sure last night while he was sweating to death and yelling out frequently in some kind of fever-induced, hallucinatory nonsense language.

i thought i would make him some matzo ball soup today, but since i am both a vegetarian and a shikseh, i have no idea how to go about it.

i googled some recipes, and most of them sounded pretty similar, except for this one:




a 4-6 pound hen?  how do i prepare it?  should it be a live hen?  what do i do about feathers?  do hens bite?  any specific color?  does pathmark sell hens, or just chicken?  the recipe did not answer any of my questions.

maybe i'll just get some take-out soup.


*update*

so, after i initially published this post, i thought i ought to fact-check a bit.  i stand corrected.  it turns out that "chicken" is just a blanket term for your general, feathered clucker.  "hens" are lady chickens, and "roosters" are guy chickens.  i feel like i should have known that growing up in poultry country, but it is refreshing to find out that i don't know everything.

ALSO...did you know that a castrated rooster is called a "capon", and that it is necessary to castrate animals like pigs and chickens because the meat tastes spoiled from the pheromones from non-castrated animals?  gross.  weird.  

vegetables don't need to be castrated.  just sayin'.

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