Soup! Who's Sick?

Daddy says that when he was growing up they only had soup when somebody was sick. Grandmommy didn't make it any other time, I reckon.

Well, it has taken some time, but Mommy has finally gotten him to change his mind, and soup is a good meal for a cold night.

So, since it was so cold Saturday, he made us soup for supper!

This one is souper easy....

First, cook up about two pounds of chicken, and cut in to cubes...



Make sure you season the water, because you're going to use the resulting stock later.

Then you dice up about this much carrots....



Then you dice up about this much celery...



Now, dice up some onion...



Now, strain the stock that you got from cooking the chicken into the pot with the mirepoix or trinity, if you will, and simmer until the vegetables are almost done.

Now add a bag of these curly noodles...



When the noodles get done, add the chicken, and you're ready to serve!

When it's all done you should have this succulent almost clear chickeny broth with sweet bits of carrot, and savoury celery and onion mingling around with juicy bits of chicken and delicious and colourful noodles! Doesn't that sound delicious?

Well, when we ran this one by our panel of tasters, we didn't get any stars. As a matter of fact, we got the opposite...

Daddy said he gave it a black hole!
Mommy gave it no stars.
Andy gave it a, 'not that bad', but he's sick and cant really taste anything, besides, 'not that bad' still means 'bad'.
Amanda ate all she had, but DID NOT request a second helping.

Overall, it was a dismal failure and a phenomenal waste of time and ingredients! I think the major disappointment was the noodles that disintegrated into the clear broth, resulting in a milky and grainy sludge that masked the flavour of anything else in the mix! Perhaps, if you leave these out, you might be able to redeem this recipe. If you want my advice, then rip this whole page out of the book and burn it!!! I may even go as far as to burn the whole book based on this one sorry excuse for a meal. A hot steaming bowl of chatang would be a welcome alternative to this imitation gruel!

Daddy suggested that Mommy should call and offer it to Maw Maw. So she did, and we took her some, to which Daddy exclaimed, "WHY DIDN'T YOU TAKE HER ALL OF IT??????" I'm going to test a little bit of it with Heather and see if she will eat it! I bet if we gave it to Wonkie, it would send her into labour!!!



It may be useful to spread around your flowers as a deterrent for cats and rodents. Put a pot of this in your attic, and you will never have a bat problem. It would probably work as a paint remover. I think it might even work on soap scum. Speaking of scum, it does remind me of that green slimy stuff that floats on the backwaters of the lake in the middle of August.

Okay, so there you have it. I do not recommend this soup for man nor beast. If you have these ingredients on hand, find another use for them, as this will simply be a waste! I suppose if I were starving, and on the verge of death, I would eat it, however, I doubt it would do anything more than hasten the inevitable. Even the cafeteria lady would think it's bad! Your children may threaten to call DSS if you serve it.

In other news, we spotted these two cows in Aunt Mandy's front yard the other day.



They looked at us when we blew the horn, then went back to eating the grass that is greener over the septic tank. It probably tasted better than the soup!