On 12/09/2016 at 10:41 AM, Jip99 said:

The dogs get the bones and skin.

 

Sod the dogs.

 

I make soup, in fact from one chicken carcass I generally make two different soups and freeze one of them. Lovely!

 

OK the chicken is precooked, and doesn't fit some's idea of creative cooking.  I like to cook (or smoke) a chicken myself, but the leftovers can take some creativity to cook with.

 

Some that come to mind

 

Chicken stew, I add lots of veggies and make some dumplings

Chicken Paprikash (if you have access to sour cream)

Chicken pies

 

We usually make our own roast chicken and it gets shared out to my wife's sister and brother so no leftovers. They are not so keen on the pre cooked so if we do buy one of them the leftovers end up in fried rice or a kapow.

 

On 9/12/2016 at 11:22 AM, Jip99 said:

 

 

Buying pre-cooked gives you no control over the cooking time or flavours (Big C chickens are particularly horrible).

 

Yes, you can add flavour later, but the point remains that nobody would buy a pre-cooked chicken for reasons of culinary excellence. I am not knocking it, I often buy a Makro pre-cooked chicken to make a sandwich or a salad.

Quite. They put various flavours of stuffing inside and some can be really distasteful. I got caught out a few times early doors. Now I stick to known sources.

On 14.9.2016 at 0:11 AM, KittenKong said:

 

Sod the dogs.

 

I make soup, in fact from one chicken carcass I generally make two different soups and freeze one of them. Lovely!

 

 

Dito, but after cooking, my wife takes out the carcasses, peals off the meat and softer bone parts, puts them in a meat cutter or grinder, together with the cooked carrots and other vegetables, and makes dog foot out of them.

The reduced soup  makes a good chicken stock base.