On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:19:23 -0700, "Cheri" >
wrote:

>"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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>> I am only just starting to eat real food again. It is great! I get
>> "full" on just a couple of tablespoons of anything.
>>
>> Evelyn
>
>Are you still interested in cooking for others?
>
>Cheri


Hi Cheri,

Yes, in fact it is easier, since I don't eat much now, I can focus on
getting the meal together for others. Just now I am only feeding
hubby, so it is even easier.

Yesterday I got a very good deal when I shopped for my cottage cheese
and yogurt and such. I noticed that a local market had huge bags of
chicken legs (grade a) for sale very cheap. For about $3.40 I got 8
very fresh chicken legs with thighs. (Wendy will know about ADAMS
market).

I went home and made an awesome chicken-vegetable soup. I made 8
quarts of really delicious soup out of it. It helped me get rid of a
lot of soup veggies that were laying around a while. Still good, but
not for much longer if I didn't use them up.

At the store, I noticed there was also for sale, some chicken feet. I
have heard that they are good in soup, so I bought one package and
tossed them in with the chicken legs when I made the soup. It was
wonderful!!! It jelled up when cold very nicely. Very rich.

I also put in that soup, two cans of diced tomatoes, 1 cup marsala
wine, salt, pepper, dried thyme, red pepper flakes, a bunch of fresh
basil my neighbor gave me, a sprinkle of dried oregano. Chopped
onion, celery (with the tops), carrots, one parsnip, a couple of
smallish potatoes.

First I cooked the legs and feet in the water along with the wine,
herbs and canned tomatoes. When they were cooking, I chopped all
the vegetables, and added them as I went along. Because I need
everything chopped very small, I used my food processor to chop the
vegetables, by pulsing it. Ordinarily I would use about a half inch
or less, dice.

When the legs seemed to be separating from the bone a bit, I removed
them to a platter, let them cool down, and removed the meat from the
bones and chopped it in nice bite size pieces, to add back to the pot.
(Tossed away all the skin and bones).

I removed the chicken feet and put them aside also, but there didn't
seem to be much I could do with them, so I tossed them too. But it
did make an incredibly rich broth. I can see why people use them for
broth!

I added some cooked barley and a can of kidney beans to the pot and
let it all cool down till I could put it away in the freezer. Good
lunches for the future!

Today we had some for lunch and it was absolutely AWESOME. Because
it is mostly liquid I was able to eat about 1 cup of it. I have to
chew the meat and barley and veggie bits very thoroughly. But it was
really good!!!

I make incredibly delicious soups, if I do say so myself.

We share a quart of soup every day at lunch, sometimes also splitting
a sandwich or a buttered roll. I can't eat that now, so hubby ate a
whole roll himself with it.

Evelyn