every two weeks i make a dish out of sweet potato+bacon+onion+bacon.. but i don't do this too often because bacon is expensive and low in protein. but it tastes good.
i butcher them myself, separating into four categories.
everything else, and i mean everything (mostly skin).
roast the wings and backs sprinkled with salt, pepper and anything else you want. good for snacks. use the first two categories for the recipes that call for them. keep all bones. combine the bones from the first three categories with "everything else" and make soup. recycle the bones so your soup making always has the material from one or two "new" chickens, plus bones from previous 