Saturday, August 7, 2010
Juiz de Fora
I arrived in Juiz de Fora last night. Leo, Marcelo's boyfriend picked me up at the bus station. We stopped by the grocery to buy some food. I bought a whole chicken wihch I thought seemed really large, but it was very cheap. I wanted to cook a lunch for us today, a meal in one pot. Black beans, chicken, some veggies and rice. I only used part of the chicken to cook with the rice. I used the wings, legs, back, neck, head, feet, liver and gizzards. I have seen chicken feet sold in packages so I assume people eat them or maybe they cook with them to give flavor to other dishes. Perhaps twenty feet per package. The chicken I bought still had the feet and head attached. There might be a little meat and brain on the toes and around the beak including the mohawk (for lack of a better term) chickens have on the top of their heads. Anyone know what the mohawk is called? As I opened the chicken, it was interesting to see these different features not customarily found in the USA. The little eyes, pointed beak, the mohawk, the toes about as long as my thumb, the tongue limply protruding from its beak. This might prove to be a tasty meal. I'm sure it will taste like chicken. I remember eating cow tongue as a child but never a chicken tongue. I'll try anything.
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The mohawk is called a "comb" which is described as the "crown on top of a chicken's head." For turkeys, the same feature is called a "crown." The complementary feature under the beak/chin (red and fleshy) is a "wattle" or "snood." Now you know!
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