who wants soup?

[tsuki_no_bara]

i've had the worst craving for chicken soup for a few days (i think it's dear-tiger's fault but i'm not sure) (apparently if things aren't wrenlet's fault they're tiger's), so today i finally got off my butt and went to the store for chicken pieces and carrots and celery and made some. it's still cooking on the stove but i can smell it at the other end of the

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[dear_tiger]

I accept the blame for chicken soup :D It could be coming from City of Thieves, which totally was my fault.

I need to send you the recipe for that apple thingie.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i'm perfectly happy to blame david benioff, but yeah, you made me read the book, so. all your fault. ~:>

you do need to send me that recipe!

[nomercles]

Ahhh, you included the recipe! Thank you! That's a very different recipe from ours. Sounds tasty, though! I am also confused by why you'd throw out the chicken. The chicken is necessary for it being Chicken Soup, yes? Elsewise it is just Chicken Broth? (It looks like an excellent recipe for stock, without the chicken).

[tsuki_no_bara]

chicken broth is chicken soup! then depending on what you put in it it's chicken and rice, or chicken and noodles, or matzo ball. i guess the recipe says you can throw out the chicken because it's been cooking in water for four hours and doesn't taste like anything any more. which is why you shred it and save it to put in something else. :D

how do you make yours?

[nomercles]

Oh, in my world, "chicken soup" means chicken noodle soup, and if you want another kind of soup then you specify that it's chicken and rice or matzo ball. And ours is mostly just chicken and noodles, none of this veggie business. I don't object to it going into the stock and then getting strained out, but they're so mushy by the time you get there.

Instead of simmering the chicken for hours and hours, we tend to aim more toward bouillion and base, and that way the chicken is all yummy and delicious when you eat it. I've been known to roast a chicken and use the roasted chicken in the soup, but I don't actually like boiling the chicken because then it gives me heartburn later. And then you stir the noodles in separately, so they're not mushy. Mom just keeps a colander or a dish of noodles in the fridge and you mix them when you make a bowl. (If we're eating at the table, they're still separate, because everyone likes a different soup-to-noodle ratio).

[althaea101]

The recipe sounds delicious. I cannot wait to make it :)

[tsuki_no_bara]

do it! i think it needs pepper, even with the peppercorns, but i put pepper on everything so of course i think it needs more. but it's totally up to you!