We’ve been watching video interviews with various doctors, mostly chiropractors specializing in nutrition. There are five videos available per day so, depending on how late in the day we get started, we’ve had some late nights of watching these videos but most of them are excellent.
Through the years, especially since we’ve been learning more about nutrition and the role foods play in what we eat, we’ve heard so much about bone broth. After finishing the videos last night, we were both fired up about making and consuming bone broth. We both had our computers out looking at recipes and reading what other people had to say. One recipe I came across included chicken feet. I’m not going to list the supposed health benefits of chicken feet but if you should be crazy enough to want to know, simply google “health benefits of chicken feet”.
While I can’t say for sure that they’re a cure all or even that they are beneficial, it’s worth a try. Bright and early this morning, Vince said “Let’s go to Walmart . . ” Oh, no . . YOU can go to Walmart but I’m not going this morning.
So . . off he went to Walmart and to Aldi, of course. Vince can sniff out a bargain like no one else.
He found 5 packages of boneless, skinless chicken and one big package of chicken thighs at Aldi marked down to half price.
He bought three organic chickens. I’m cooking one today. I’ll make bone broth in the Instant Pot and use the chicken feet.
I divided the packages of “paws” in half so there will be about 8 or 9 feet in each batch of broth.
For now, 8 or 9 feet are boiling in water with celery, onions, garlic, salt, pepper, bay leaves. I figured the chicken feet will take up room in the pressure cook and that may be room I need for the roasted bones. The feet don’t need to boil as long as the bones do so . . that’s how I’m doing it for today.
Dianne says
Keep me posted on how this goes! I’ve been wanting to make some with chicken feet. Lots of great benefits in them. Chicken feet are a delicasy in Jamaica, they make chicken feet soup. Then eat the feet..I’m not doing that part!! LOL
Sandy Franz says
When did chicken feet become chicken paws? I have to giggle every time I see them.
Jean says
Chicken PAWS!! I love it!
-Jean
<3
Cindi says
Do you know the book ‘Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup’ by Tomie dePaola? Next time you visit Addie, you should check it out from the library.
Linda in NE says
I can honestly say that I have NEVER seen “chicken paws” or chicken feet for sale in any store around here!
Sandy Franz says
Here in Texas they are at Walmart.
Kathleen says
When I visited China in 1990s, we went to a restaurant and the feet were served along with the chicken dish. But no one ate them. Finally someone asked the Americans if we were going to eat them. After we said no, they explained in amazement that the feet were their favorite part, and they were leaving them untouched for us, the guests. At our invitation, they tore into them with gusto.
Dot says
My father-in-law was a construction engineer, and was supervising a job in Thailand. One night, he and my mother-in-law were the guests of honor at an outdoor chicken dinner. She was served the prize piece: the head! Listening to this tale later, everybody gasped and said “What did you do?” “Well, I pushed it around on my plate while eating everything else, and when no one was looking, I flipped it over my shoulder into the bush behind me!”
dezertsuz says
When I read what George Washington’s family ate – almost every single part of every single animal, I’m sort of glad I wasn’t around then, though I admire the efficiency. Of course, if I had been, I’d have probably eaten those things, but I’m telling you right now, I’m probably never eating chicken feet, even if they call them paws!
Toni Macomb says
My grandma was from Poland. When she was in her eighties we “kids” would go over and help her clean. She loved clean but her eyes were going! Anyway, there was a pot boiling on the stove. When I opened the lid I found chicken feet (paws! giggle!) I said “Grandma, you don’t have to eat these. I will buy you food” She adamantly told me that she LIKED them. Live and learn!
Marie Mann says
Chicken feet are great, they really make your chicken soup rich and thick, and they do taste great. We always ate the ‘whole’chicken except for the entrails and the head. I grew up in the 50’s and we were not well off. Mum kept chicken for eggs and meat, when the chickens went off the lay they went in the pot, steamed first then baked, but the heart, gizzard, legs, always went into the chicken soup.
Sharon Malone says
An amusing story my sister and I tell from our childhood memories of family dinners at our Grandparents involves chicken feet. When we were small children the common practice among rural farm folks was for the men to eat first, then the women, then the children. We remember that by the time the children were able to eat the only thing left was a big pot of broth with chicken feet floating around in it. By the time our children came along, the children were being fed first! We couldn’t win.
Sandy says
When I was a kid we raised chickens to eat, but we never ate the chicken’s feet!
Judy Laquidara says
We never did either, as far as I know but when I look my chickens’ feet . . they’re nasty. I’m not sure how they clean them up before selling them and I probably don’t want to know but they were sparkling clean. The ones I bought seemed plump and fat but my chickens’ feet look kinda boney and not very meaty. Poor chickens . . I’m glad they don’t know I’m looking at their feet in terms of food. Maybe the chickens raised for production don’t get the exercise my chickens get . . I have no idea but I don’t have any intention of eating the feet of my chickens . . or any part of them if I can help it.