Posted on 10/25/2023 6:57:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Homemade is always vastly superior to the overprocessed crap in cans.
The best use for canned goods is as emergency prep supplies. It’s far better than nothing.
That’s what my mother always called it.
She made chicken soup that was awesome and I have not yet managed to replicate it. It could be the chicken itself. I’ll bet poultry has changed a LOT since I was a kid 50-60 years ago.
Useless article as it really says NOTHING!
Bone broth is good for you when sick too- easy to digest, and has loads of nutrients I guess.
Thanks Red Badger.
Chicken soup as a therapy can be traced back to 60 A.D. and Pedanius Dioscorides, an army surgeon who served under the Roman emperor Nero, and whose five-volume medical encyclopedia was consulted by early healers for more than a millennium.
I keep a whole chicken in the freezer at all times for just such an occasion. Bone marrow broth from simmering the chicken plus cooking the veggies in the same water, and Kluski noodles (thin, similar to the ones that come in canned soup) or Acini de pepe (think Italian wedding soup), are my go-to pastas for a good chicken soup. Plenty of salt/garlic/thyme. Some carrots, celery and onion. Speedy healing!
Yep! Good stuff.
Vicks comes in a cream, now, that is even stronger (and less greasy).
Broth is easy to make with a whole chicken (or turkey). With the bonus of having plenty of meat for sandwiches.
I instinctively crave it whenever under the weather.
Umami? No mames, guey.
It’s the go to in my family when sick, and sometimes they request it just cuz they love it! Boil whole chicken, half water, half stock, with fresh ground pepper, plenty of minced garlic, quarter onion diced, thyme, and some cumin. Remove chicken from bone back into the broth, add some diced creamer potatoes and carrots, finish with extra broad no yolk egg noodles. Kinda more like a stew than a soup. Cures what ails ya.
Hot steamy soup can unstuffed a nose, the food is easy to digest, the saltiness might provoke more liquid intake and the flavors might well awaken your taste buds. Altogether, it’s good medicine.
Wife makes a killer chicken soup. She starts with a whole chicken in our big stock pot. It’s got everything in it, except potatoes.
Bones settle to bottom
I boil the turkey carcass in the same pot I used for the mashed potatoes. The leftover mashed potatoes clinging to the sides of the pot thicken the broth and make for a bit richer soup..
Good comfort food.
She’s part Jaliscan and Choctaw, and French, and part Louisianan.
I agree
Tea and toast
Rice cereal and soft cooked egg
Chicken soup
Hot toddy
All comfort and healing foods for the sick
I make my homemade chickensoup with some tabasco bottle shakes
Give it an edge but does not taste hot or spicy
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