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Little Peter asked for some chicken soup last week so Friday I pulled a chicken out of the freezer, and today we made soup! First I tossed the chicken in my new BIG stock pot! Then I added a ton of parsley and garlic powder, some salt and pepper, a little chicken boulion and 3 tablespoons of vinegar and let it boil until the meat was starting to fall off. Then I took out the chicken and let it cool, shredded it and put as much as I needed back into the soup, ate a little and froze the rest for another recipe.
While the chicken was cooling I took the veggies, chopped them and softened them a bit on some olive oil. Doesn't it look so pretty? Then I tossed them in the soup, added 2 handfuls of pasta and we had lunch!
Then I took the bones of the chicken carcass and tossed those in my crock pot to make chicken stock Nourishing Traditionsstyle:
Carcass of one free range chicken (ours usually has meat on the wings still)
2 T vinegar
1 onion coarsely chopped
2 carrots coarsely chopped
3 celery stalks coarsely chopped
1 bunch of parsley
1 garlic clove chopped
Add all this to the crock pot with enough water to fill it. Let cook on high 12 hours. Drain out everything, use broth.
My boys LOVE this chicken stock, and I love how healthy it is for them! I'll freeze this batch (usually when I make it its gone within the first day and I never have any to freeze!)
"Rich homemade chicken broths help cure colds. Stock contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily—not just calcium but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals. It contains the broken down material from cartilage and tendons--stuff like chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine, now sold as expensive supplements for arthritis and joint pain."
