Jou's Kantan Cooking: Hearty Chicken Noodle Soup

[homasse]

I have a cold and I wanted chicken noodle soup, danggit. And living in Japan has got me used to the idea of cooking everything from scratch instead of getting it in a can. Plus, a can means a can I have to throw away, and that means figuring out what random day out of the month is can day for garbage. And that's a pain

Comments

[dichroic]

Another good reason to buy the chicken already cut up: don't know if practices in Japan are similar to those in Taiwan, but here when you buy a whole chicken it is really the WHOLE chicken - with head and feet still on. Cutting off the head isn't too hard - the main challenge was not cutting myself while trying not to look too much at the chicken's face - but detaching the foot tendons was a real struggle.

However, there were no organs left in as in the US. I think it would actually be more upsetting to have moved from Taiwan to the US, bought a whole chicken, and have to handle the gizzard, liver, heart, etc.

[txtriffidranch]

I hope you made enough for everybody, young lady, because I'll be over in an hour.