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Islander
09-29-09, 10:24 PM
Ingredients:
1 small yellow onion, chopped
1-5 cloves garlic. chopped or crushed (to taste)
1 tsp-3 Tbsp grated fresh ginger root (to taste)
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1/2 cup sliced Shitake mushrooms
1 qt miso broth, chicken broth or mushroom broth
3 Tbsp fresh minced parsley
1 grated carrot
Directions:
Combine the broth, onion, ginger, garlic and mushrooms. Simmer for 15-20 minutes. Remove from heat and add lemon juice, carrot and parsley. Put cover on pan and steam for 5 minutes.
Eat 1-4 times a day.
By William Mitchell, ND, co-founder of Bastyr University
Modified by Debra Brammer, ND


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EmmaPeel
09-30-09, 01:55 AM
My Chinese neighbor has a similar recipe except she uses Gai lan (Chinese broccoli...looks like a cross between kale and broccoli), chopped chili's, and chicken feet... she swears that this will keep you well all winter...!

Okay...I made it about once a week all winter, but used chicken parts instead...I just couldn't 'stomach' the feet...pardon the pun...lol

And yes, we were well all winter.
Islander
09-30-09, 10:46 AM
Heh. When I was in China, chicken feet was the one food I drew the line at!
EmmaPeel
10-01-09, 12:13 PM
...chicken feet, tripe, hocks, ears, eyeballs, anything that crawls or is still alive and looking at me...or still beating...:eek:
That's were I draw my line!

Isn't that something though...years ago, our grandparents probably lived on the stuff....blechtttt!!! lol
:D
Maurya
10-01-09, 01:05 PM
I have heard that the mass sale of chicken feet from the US to China is about the only thing that holds up our end of the trade deficit. Perhaps by buying such great amounts of chicken feet the Chinese are telling us that they know something that we do not. Blechh factor aside. ;)
Reesacat
10-01-09, 02:47 PM
Wonder if it is the collagen or something like that in chicken feet?
EmmaPeel
10-01-09, 04:11 PM
I can't believe I actually found nutritional data on chicken feet!! Hilarious!!

According to this, it actually is pretty low on the nutritional scale, but then again it doesn't measure things like collagen...it is mostly fat, water, and a low source of protein. Must be something else in it...

Actually, my mother told me that ox tails were given to the hospitals for the infirm because no one ever bought them as they were considered "poor man's food"...now they are a delicacy and are expensive...AND highly nutritious. Lots of fat and gelatin/collagen in them too....


http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/poultry-products/7210/2
Islander
10-01-09, 09:53 PM
Brains, liver, kidneys, heart, giblets, sweetbreads—our grandparents ate them all, and I was raised on most of them. I ate them when we raised sheep, and still eat some of them when I can get them. I'm finally out of organ meats to feed my cats, except for a tongue I picked up from the local beef farmer, so I'll be checking the local slaughterhouses.
mellowsong
10-02-09, 09:19 AM
Wonder if it is the collagen or something like that in chicken feet?
According to one of my nutrition groups, you should add chicken feet to all your bone broth. It thickens it up like Jello and you are getting all the wonderful collagen and it is bioavailable.
EmmaPeel
10-02-09, 02:42 PM
...hard to find chicken feet...but I am fairly sure that they would have it at the Chinese market. Wonder if wings would work as well?

After all this talk of soup, I think I'll make some today...its a cool, rainy fall day ...

You know, all of the seniors that I know who are living long, active lives swear by homemade soup and a daily walk...!
Islander
10-03-09, 10:03 AM
Emma, is there a slaughterhouse near you? Because we recently sent nearly 100 chickens to be slaughtered, and they all come back without their feet. That's 200 feet right there! (You gotta peel them, ya know).
Aaltrude
10-03-09, 01:43 PM
Emma, is there a slaughterhouse near you? Because we recently sent nearly 100 chickens to be slaughtered, and they all come back without their feet. That's 200 feet right there! (You gotta peel them, ya know).

....and those 200 feet probably went to China:(
Islander
10-04-09, 08:22 PM
Do you suppose they walked?

LOL LOL LOL
Aaltrude
10-04-09, 09:48 PM
Do you suppose they walked?

LOL LOL LOL

ROTFL.:D
EmmaPeel
10-05-09, 01:29 AM
Emma, is there a slaughterhouse near you? Because we recently sent nearly 100 chickens to be slaughtered, and they all come back without their feet. That's 200 feet right there! (You gotta peel them, ya know).

LOL LOL ...Yeh probably went to China...how the heck do you peel a foot?
I mean, collagen benefits aside...knawing on a chicken foot....makes my eye water just thinking of it....LOL (That would be from the toenails poking me in the eyes)...LOL

...I'll stick to wings thanks.;)
EmmaPeel
10-05-09, 01:35 AM
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:eF5Tt5IGuGEAjM:http://gallery.photo.net/photo/6361127-lg.jpg


...did your chicken feet have this???? LOL
DizzyIzzy
10-05-09, 05:08 AM
Heh. When I was in China, chicken feet was the one food I drew the line at!

ME TOO!

Except it was Thailand, and duck foot stew... I ate fried locusts, deep-fried cricket crisps, sauteed spider, snake, curried crocodile, night-crawler worms, several different beetles, scorpions, mopani worms, and God knows what else... but I just couldn't face the duck feet. Ew.

All I could picture was the 'bird pie' from Roald Dahl's The Twits.... haha.
Islander
10-05-09, 11:03 AM
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:eF5Tt5IGuGEAjM:http://gallery.photo.net/photo/6361127-lg.jpg


...did your chicken feet have this???? LOL

OMG.

Do you know where those feet have been? Do you?
Aaltrude
10-05-09, 02:27 PM
OMG.

Do you know where those feet have been? Do you?

Yeah well - if it was our hens - they often spend part of their day scratching around in the heap of horse manure:eek:
mellowsong
10-05-09, 04:00 PM
...hard to find chicken feet...but I am fairly sure that they would have it at the Chinese market. Wonder if wings would work as well?

After all this talk of soup, I think I'll make some today...its a cool, rainy fall day ...

You know, all of the seniors that I know who are living long, active lives swear by homemade soup and a daily walk...!
Wings make a great gelatinous broth but you need a lot of em. I've never tried the chicken feet mostly cause I don't want to mess with peeling them. I'll be the farmer I get my chicken from would give me some though.
EmmaPeel
10-06-09, 01:34 AM
OMG.

Do you know where those feet have been? Do you?

...by the look of these feet I'd havta say ....Tiffany's ???? lol