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"Ozgirl" > wrote:

> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Ozgirl > wrote:
> > : I want to do a chicken one next, anyone got a favourite chicken soup
> > : recipe?
> >
> > : Every time I have made it I have mostly followed my grandmother's
> > : recipe. The chicken would be an old "boiler" cooked slowly of
> > course.
> > : Home made stock. Soup always had corn in it She used to scrape
> > the
> > : corn off the cobs though, I use canned, lol. Potatoes, carrots,
> > onions
> > : and fresh peas. I always nixed the potatoes. Garlic wasn't anything
> > my
> > : nan ever used. I don't know anyone back in the day who did use it
> > now I
> > : come to think of it.
> >
> > Your ham hock soup reminds me of my turkey carcase soup. It also
> > cleans
> > out the fridge:-)
>
> I think most soups do don't they? I have tossed in a rasher of bacon
> that wasn't enough to make a meal of bacon and eggs for someone, even
> leftover bits of salsa or pasta sauce and of course any veggie that is
> starting to be a little limp etc. I often have little bits of onion that
> have been partly used but not needed for anything else for a few days. I
> never throw out my celery leaves, they go into stews and soups or finely
> chopped and mixed with salads. Small amounts of frozen veggies that
> haunt the freezer go in too

Yep, while my base soup has carrots, onions, and celery, I've used
broccoli stems or the thick parts of asparagus stems, if I have them
handy. I'll use a random assortment of herbs. I often roast the chicken
with a large stem of fresh rosemary in the carcass, in which case that
makes it into the soup as well.

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