Baby Flava is coming for a visit and the freezer is full of Holiday Cookies but nothing for BF.
What shall I make? It's cold and blustery outside so what better food for this weather...soup.
We haven't talked about soup, but what a perfect food for BF. You have your broths, your bisque, your cream based soups, and every flavor imaginable: beef, chicken, vegetable, potato, tomato, squash. Another opportunity to introduce new flavors and textures. You can add rice, pasta, lentils, beans, all sorts of different things to your soup.
Lets start out with simple Jewish Penicillin, Chicken Soup. As my Grandma (BF's Great Great Grandma) would have said...first you kill a chicken!
Today go to your store and purchase a natural or organic chicken, whole, or parts. Kosher chickens make a wonderful soup, the choice is yours.
Here is your basic recipe:
Chicken Soup
1 whole chicken cut in 8 pieces
1 medium onion peeled
2 large carrots cut into 1/4" rounds
2 large stalks of celery cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 parsnip peeled and cut int0 match stick size pieces
1 bouquet garni (tie up in a piece of cheesecloth 10 whole peppercorns, 3 parsley stalks 3 stalks of fresh thyme and 2 cloves of garlic (optional)
Kosher salt to taste
Water
Place chicken in large stock pot. Add 2 quarts of water, bouquet garni and 2 tsp. of salt and bring to a simmer. Simmer (try not to boil) chicken for 30 minutes. As the chicken cooks skim the top to get rid of any fat and yucky foamy stuff that rises to the surface. Add vegetables and cook for another 20-30 minutes until veggies are soft.
Remove chicken from pot, let cool and remove skin and meat from bones. Taste soup stock for seasonings. If to dilute, cook down a bit...if to strong add a cup or two of water. Shred meat and place back into stock pot with soup. Discard skin and bones.
You may add cooked noodles, rice or matzoh balls to the soup. Be sure to cook these items before adding to your soup, otherwise the soup will be absorbed in the cooking process and you will have a thicker soup. If this is what you like, then by all means go ahead.
Other things you can add to your soup: hominy-makes it more like a stew; corn, squash, tomatoes, peppers...a chicken vegetable soup. Spinach leaves, escarole...etc.
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A side note: I had a leftover piece of parsnip. I grated it, added 2 grated carrots, 1/2 grated apple and a bit of water. Cooked it for a few minutes and then in the blender...Parotapple! Tasted yummy and put it in the freezer for BF's visit.
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