Outcome, was Chicken Thighs: The New Frontier, and a Question

Bet her mother never cooked the dark meat, or never served chicken on the bone.My husband's mother is .... a pill. She prides herself on everything being very precise, cleans for a HOBBY, that sort of thing. She is a terrible cook, too. On top of it, she only served meats and poultry boneless. Ugh. (She actually stopped cooking in her forties because "it's so messy." And has the health problems one might expect from eating processed sh*t all the time. She does still make a soup that contains nothing but canned ingredients, including canned carrots, which I had never even heard of. She has lived in her current house for five years and never used her oven. She gives me the willies.

Anyway, my mama, daughter of Virginia hillbillies and German farmer immigrants, made chicken and dumplings on the bone, skin included! The bones added flavor, and we just picked around them so there was a pile of skin and bones on the plate when we were finished! I have had this dish without the skin and bones and it may be more convenient but it is not nearly as good. Or, stuffed pork chops on the bone. If I serve my husband something like this, good earthy "messy" old cooking, he will get a look on his face like I am trying to kill him. And spend a long time carefully excising any bone before he takes a bite. :) Happily, she couldn't ruin him completely.

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