Hello! Ah, Bob. I left the list for quite some time while on deployment (actually, I'm /still/ on deployment), and didn't realize how much I missed his posts. I actually printed out the one he wrote about his broken roof and showed it around, and my decidedly non-ferret-oriented fellow sailors were still highly entertained by the tale. But I digress. I haven't made Bob's Blender Killer -- aka Chicken Gravy -- yet. But I was thinking about the blender problem and thought I might have a solution other than going out and buying one of those expensive, industrial, hotdog-ingredient-generating blenders: get a heavy, solid butcher's knife and chop the chicken up into smaller pieces before feeding it to the blender. I don't know if this would make the bones more easily digestible to small appliances, but I'm certain it would be cathartic (and alarming to the in-laws, always a bonus). Very respectfully, -- Kat [Posted in FML issue 4595]