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Default Chicken Veg or lentil soup today

On 4/25/2021 1:41 PM, Graham wrote:
> On 2021-04-25 9:31 a.m., US Janet wrote:
>>
>> I think it is going to be chicken veggie soup.Â* I went out to the
>> freezer, dug around and found a smallish whole bird that will fit in
>> the pressure cooker.Â* Pressure cooker makes the very best stock.Â* The
>> stock becomes heavily chicken flavored.Â* But I do cook the chicken for
>> about an hour.Â* That pulls all the flavor out of the bird and bones.
>> I'll use the usual for making the stock -- celery,, onion, carrot, bay
>> leaf, garlic, thyme and a bit of s&p.
>> I alway use a ues strainer to getÂ* out the odds and ends but this time
>> I think I will also strain the stock through cheesecloth.
>> This is going to be a kind of kitchen sink chicken soup. Carrot,
>> onion, celery, green beans, cabbage, maybe some spinach.
>> I've got a baguette and home made garlic butter to go with the soup.
>> It's a good project for a totally dark, grey, nasty day.
>>
>> What's on your menu for today?
>>
>> Janet US
>>

> Miserable weather here - snowing steadily:-(
> I baked a couple of Lahey-style loaves yesterday - ran out of WW bread
> flour so subbed WW pastry flour and some gluten. Worked fine.
> Tempted to just have bread, cheese and pickled onions.


Ploughman's lunch again?

Jill