I made chicken soup today
are actually I started making chicken soup today. I'm talking basic.
This is the first time I have ever really made chicken soup from
scratch and it seems the coming along quite nicely. Remember last
week or couple weeks ago when one of my neighbors foisted a chicken
on me? I cut the chicken and half and used part of it and then froze
the other half. I just stuck have to chicken in a freezer bag and
threw it in the top of the refrigerator. I've been thinking ever
sense that I wanted to use the remaining chicken to make soup. This
was especially the case last week when I felt that I was coming down
with some form of sore throat, luckily for me that passed but not my
desire to make chicken soup.
I actually looked up on
the Internet a couple of recipes for chicken soup. I also looked up
the process on how to render chicken stock for the remains of the
bird. It seems kind of straightforward maybe a little complicated but
I woke up this morning, again very early, and begin to ruminate on
making the chicken soup. I realize it's a long process actually to do
it right. So I figured it being Saturday why not commit to the whole
day for the process. Seriously, 6:35 AM I was I traipsing around on
the second floor of the apartment complex using the front loader
washer. The front loader in my laundry on this floor was out of order
– – or so the sign says – – so I figured I would use the
front loader on the second story. It's weird, I've never used the
laundry facilities on the second floor seems like I am a interloper.
I don't think there are any issues as far as having to use the
laundry on the floor you live but still I felt a tad uncomfortable.
With the laundry finished
I ended my procrastination and begin the process of deboning the
chicken I was pleased the process went quickly. I separated the
biggest pieces of meat from the bones. The breast or half a breast,
the wing and leg and thigh. Where I could I removed the skin.
Finally, I'm sure could do a better job saved a lot more meat but I'd
gotten the big pieces off that was good enough for me. I actually
pulled down the kettle I purchased from the polygamist store I
purchased a couple years ago. This was the first time I'd ever used
the vessel. But the carcass in the kettle and filled it with water
and set it on the stove, a section up and onion, smashed a couple
garlic's, threw in some carrots and put the whole thing to boil. I
finally got that finished around 10:30 AM once I brought the boil and
then set the pot to simmer where it stayed for the rest of the day.
What an unbelievable older if produced in my apartment.
Around 7:00 PM I fished
out the bones ran the boil through a strainer pulled out as many
vegetables I could set them aside and is going to make the soup but
sort of ran out of gas. I'd had enough of soup making for the day. I
got an idea though. I'm going to take about half of the stock and
freeze it for soup are whatever on another day and then save the rest
for tomorrow while making chicken soup adding a couple more carrots
and potatoes.
The soup is cooling now
and soon a put it away. It's been a good day. I washed clothes hung
and folded, made soup and wished by granddaughter happy birthday via
the Internet today was a good day…
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