Chicken Soup

A bowl of soup.

In the fridge for lunches!

Today I cooked chicken soup. This is nothing new, I just haven't done it for a long time. When I lost weight before I used to live on my chicken soup. It helped me lose weight then, and I hope it does this time too. The main reason to make chicken soup is to have something to eat when I'm hungry. It is easy to take out a container of chicken soup and stick it in the microwave for a couple of minutes and have something that is filling. The problem is in the past few years has been I didn't like the taste of my soup. When I first started making my soup Sarah, my youngest daughter, liked it so much she would ask me to make it every time she saw me. At that time I always had soup in my fridge and she would eat one or two bowls of it when she came over. It used to be part of my Sunday afternoons to make soup. Sarah suggested I start to sell my soup to the construction workers that were working across the street. She was excited by how much I could make because my soup was great!! People would ask me what I put in it and I would tell them the truth, I had no idea what went into it I just put what was in the spice rack next to the stove. As spices got used up I would just buy what was there before. Then, I stopped making soup for a while. When I started again I didn't like the taste myself. I ended up throwing out the soup I didn't eat. Sarah didn't want to eat it any more. So, I tried again today. I used to whole chickens and just throw it in after I took off the skin. I would spend an hour or two cooking it until it came off the bone, then I had to fish the bones out. I changed to just buying legs and thighs and that was easier to get the bones out. Now I just buy the more expensive boneless chicken breasts, but I figure I get more meat. The soup is different because I do that, instead of getting the small pieces of chicken from what came off the bone I now have small cubes of chicken in my soup. I had started using garlic salt and garlic powder instead of real garlic. (I hate unwrapping those little packages from God!) Today I used garlic instead of salt and powder. Today's soup was WONDERFUL! I am the only one that has tried it, and I am happy it is so good. I will be eating it a lot in the next couple of days and it is very very good. I don't think there will be any for Sarah from this batch. My sister Sue is coming next week and I will keep a container of soup for her since she has never experienced my culinary delight. I am happy about this batch and wonder if I will be able to match it again. As I was cooking it reminded me of the time I was asked to be on Korean TV. I said sure, and then found out it was a cooking show. They asked for us to cook something and be interviewed for a short episode in a woman's show. Shows in Korea often asked us to be on because we were an international couple and were interesting. We cooked spaghetti sauce for the show. Just followed a recipe from a cook book. It was interesting to me since they all laughed when I used a measuring cup. After watching the show I asked my wife why they laughed and she said I was using a measuring cup and they didn't understand why. I still don't agree they should laugh at me for using a measuring cup, but I guess it is a different culture, not Korean culture, but Women's culture!!