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10:00 AM
Rainy, ugly day. Good day to make soup. I am doing Trisha Yearwood’s Chicken Tortilla Soup and Hamburger Vegetable, with turkey instead of beef. I will add photos as the day goes on.
I finally figured out that the reason my bread did not work was that the flour was old. I used some new and it is looking as it should. I am making a white and a whole wheat bread to be baked in the Dutch oven.
I did bran muffins yesterday and put them in my puny freezer.
I took this yesterday, and though it has nothing to do with soup, I am putting it here. It is grainy because I took it with my phone, but still it is nice. It is Pippin on the rocks, hunting a lizard. He is such a pretty cat. Stupid chicken laid an egg in the middle of their outdoor space. I had to crawl in the end, with a tool to sweep it nearer to me. Ick.
12:15 PM It is now a little sunny.
My bread is coming out this time. I am now convinced the flour was just old.
I am doing the whole wheat about an hour ahead of the white, as I only have one Dutch oven. This one has to rise for two hours.
I finished the hamburger (turkey) soup. This is a soup you do not eat the first day. I think I am finding that is true for most soup.
I have finished the chicken tortilla soup too. I even had it for lunch. You put crumbled tortilla chips on the botton of the bowl, spoon in the soup, and put some shredded cheese on top. It is really a good soup.
I forgot to take a picture of all the soup stuff my friend Jan sent me. I did take one of them in the pantry. I will never run out of mix. I will also now be able to make Chicken Matzo Ball soup next week, which will be a first. I have never made a tasty chicken soup of any kind. I ususally end up with greasy tasteless water. Keep your fingers crossed.
I made a really good Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup one time.
I use 1/2 Chicken Stock and 1/2 chicken broth. It was super super simple.
I boiled some boneless, skinless chicken breasts in the stock/broth and then removed them for chopping and set them aside. I chopped up some onion, celery and carrots and put them into the pot of Chicken stock and broth along with the diced chicken and cooked on low for 30 minutes or so (until the veggies were tender). Then, I jacked up the heat and added wide egg noodles and cooked until they were done. Salt and pepper to taste. Done!
And to just be different, I sometimes use 3-cheese tortellini instead of egg noodles. Yummy!!
if you want really good chicken soup, as weird as it sounds, or even a REALLY good turkey stew, try this: chunk up your chicken breasts or turkey breast into little pieces. Take a small onion, a couple cloves of garlic and a couple teaspoons of olive oil and run it through the blender. It’ll turn into a liquid, which you stir into your chunked up poultry. Toss in it a disposable foil pan and ROAST it for 45 minutes at 375 (well, until it looks really nice and brown but not scorched). Then toss that into a pot with stock (oddly i prefer Swanson’s organic vegetable broth, which may be a cheat, but it’s easy and tastes good) with your vegetables and seasonings of preference. If you’re calling it stew and using potatoes they go in with the veggies- pasta goes in later…you can thicken it or not…whatever…but roasting the poultry first in the onion/garlic/oil mix gives it all a really great added flavor. (Note that i did not tell you to add green chilies)
I make a good Chicken Noodle soup this way. Cook about 4-6 chicken thighs in a pot of water. Water should cover meat by 1″. Cook until meat falls off the bone, about 1 hour. Put meat in a strainer. Add one medium, diced onion and about three diced celery sticks to water mixture. Pick meat off bones and add back into water mixture. Add 2 tablespoons of chicken soup base. Cook for about a half hour or until onion and celery is tender. Add in one large bag of yoke free, wheat noodles. Any size noodles will work. Add salt and pepper to taste (make sure to taste before adding salt as the soup base has salt in it). Cook until noodles are tender. If you have to add more water, then add one tablespoon of soup base to every 1-2 cups of water.
Wow! Thanks all. Now anyone have a carrot soup recipe?
I will post the recipes today. The bread was ok, but not as good as I remember, and I am thinking that the humidity has something to do with it. It has rained so much lately that our back deck is slippery.
Good picture of Pippin and I would have loved to have seen you crawling in the chicken coop.