On Saturday, September 24, 2016 at 3:21:04 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 10:55:14 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsyahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I used to do that back in the old days. I could save some dough by cutting up a chicken myself. I enjoyed doing it too. These days, a whole chicken could cost over 12 bucks. That's past my tipping point of under $7. I stopped buying whole chicken about the time that Windows XP came out. Coincidence? I think not.
>
> I think we're in the same boat. The price of chicken went up enough
> that I decided it was worth the expense to buy just the cuts of
> chicken I actually like instead of the entire thing and figuring out
> what to do with what I don't like (the white meat).
>
> That said, I think it was Cheri who mentioned that Smart & Final had
> Foster Farms whole chicken on sale for 79 cents a pound, which is as
> cheap as it gets here. I was out and about yesterday looking for Koji
> rice, so I called them thinking it would be at least 10 cents a pound
> more (because real estate is more expensive here) - but it was 79
> cents there too. Surprise, surprise! There were only 3 in the case,
> so I picked the biggest one - 5 lbs.
>
> I didn't find the Koji rice. I have one more place to check before I
> resort to the internet, but in the mean time - I found a store that
> stocks maltose, rice wine (not sake/beer), calamansi juice, bao flour,
> a motherlode of Patak's curry pastes (I bought 3) and stewing chicken.
> The chicken is frozen, but I don't care. They also sell pork, beef,
> chicken and probably lamb in those paper thin slices - plus chicken
> that looks like it was ground inside the store. I hate buying any
> ground meat that comes to the store prepackaged. Nasty stuff.
>
> --
> I love cooking with wine.
> Sometimes I even put it in the food.

It sounds like you're looking to have a heck of a good time in the kitchen. Congrats on that.