Starting fresh: since I had a new batch of chickens processed last week, I took the unsold parts that have been piling up in the freezer since last summer and gave them to the Mid-Ohio Foodbank on Tuesday. It came out to 315 lbs. of backs, wings, gizzards, and legs. Then I came home and remembered I still had another small bag of legs and wings in another freezer.
I also found a local purveyor of Caribbean food who gave me dinner in exchange for a couple bags of chicken feet!
My plan had been to make breasts and Italian sausage out of the next batch of birds, but since this batch is nearly sold out–I have about enough for tomorrow at Clintonville and for the CSA shares for the next few weeks–I might not. I could have them keep out some whole birds and make breasts and sausage from the rest, but then there might not be enough to meet the 80 pound minimum for making sausage. We’ll see. It’ll be a surprise. I’ll either have sausage in a couple weeks or I won’t.
