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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