Chicken Soup

[LizStreithorst]

Buy a chicken, cook it as you choose and eat the meat.  I took the easy way and bought a rotisserie chicken and made enchiladas and tacos.

Take the carcass after you have eaten all the meat and pick it clean of the little bits of meat that are left.  Put them back in the fridge.  Take the carcass, a quartered onion, a couple of carrots and a couple stalks of celery, an handful of fresh parsley and your favorite spice (I like thyme) and throw it all into a big pot of water.  Add salt and pepper.  Bring this to a boil and boil it for several hours.  Add more water when necessary.  When everything is soft and the flavor has been transferred to the liquid pour it through a colander saving the liquid.  Put the rest of the stuff on the dog's kibble.  They will love you.

Put the liquid back on the heat.  Add a chopped onion, a couple stalks of chopped celery, and your preferred.  starch.  I'm big on barley, but rice or noodles are good, too.  I imagine a chopped up potato would work, as well.   Bring to a boil and cook until the starch is nearly done, then add veggies galore.  Frozen is fine.  Add your chicken meat pickings that you reserved from the carcass.  Cook for another 20 minutes.

Thicken it up a bit by creaming butter in flour and put it in.  If it seems lacking in flavor add a splash of Worcestershire or a couple of splashes or Thai fish sauce or both.  Enjoy!

[PaulineMi]

Yum....that sounds great!

I put chicken carcass in the pressure cooker and use the softened bones and juice as dog food.  Looks like I'm missing out on keeping some broth for us.

[Mugwump]

Sounds delicious....I make something similar but I add noodles and tortellinis....either beef for cheese...sometimes some of each.....thanks, Liz.....

and now I need to make a pot full...LOL...got me hungry..