boo creepy fetus egg!!!

gross! i got the fetus egg!!!! boo!

but i'll get into that later.

had a craptastic day at work, where the development team totally blew me off again. yay. consoled myself with seltzer water and peanut butter cups though, and made it through the day.

its cold out today and i decided that this was a good comfort food day and so i would make that most comfortable of foods, matzoh ball soup. good stuff. anyway, this starts with a basic chicken soup recipe, which i thought i would post for becky and some other people ;o)

this isn't like "sunday afternoon, been saving all my bones and scraps for a month" chicken soup. that's a whole different ride. let's call this "working woman's chicken soup" also "lazy but better than canned" soup.

At the store you need to grab:

Onions
chicken breasts (and thighs if you like dark meat, but i dont)
garlic
Better than Bouillion chicken jar
carrots
celery

and im assuming you have:
spices (pepper, bay leaf, etc)


cut off the leafy part and the bottom of the celery and put it in a pot.
put in an onion, cut into big chunks
put in some garlic
one bay leaf
some pepper
the chicken

cover with water and boil for an hour or so.
pull the chicken out (bbq tongs work well for keeping it together. totally off topic, i love to find alternate uses for kitchen tools. more on this later) strain the stuff in the pot. save the liquid. i use one of those bacon splatter shield screens over a bowl so i get everything out but you can use a regular strainer if you can rig one up to a bowl. well, i usually use a bowl. today i was experimenting and found that adams old metal coffee percolator makes a good gravy/fat separator. shhh...its our secret. :)

so, strain your stuff out somehow.

save the liquid and throw the rest of the stuff out.
put the liquid back in the pot. (you could probably rinse the pot out first)

chop up some celery and carrots and add to the liquid. cut up an onion and dice some garlic, add some more pepper etc. taste it, it might be bland. add some of the Better than Bouillion. go slow with this, too much is a very gross thing.

cook it about 20 min. during this time, you should be picking the chicken meat. boiling makes it fall right off the bone, so youre basically just pulling the skin off and making sure no bone gets in. just put the meat aside and toss the gunk. once youre done with this, throw it in the liquid.

cook the whole mess another 30 min or something. hours good too. whatever.

so, at this point you can do a couple of things. which brings me to the egg.

i had decided earlier that my soup was going to be matzoh ball soup. i was pretty excited, because a)matzoh ball soup rules and is delicious and also b) it was going to be my little twist on it. like matzoh ball BAM! soup with some kick you know? anyhow.

i bought 6 hippy eggs- the run free little bird ones- at the store, because for matzoh balls you need like 3 or 4. so im here, 2 hours into this soup and i go to make the matzoh balls and on the 4th egg the 4th egg i say i crack it into the bowl and its the nasty creepy 1 in a million fetus egg. so sad. the other eggs were contaminated: i cant take it! that sketches me out. i tossed them all and no matzoh balls for me. i have some couscous and some egg noodles so im good, but its so not the same. maybe ill add a little spinach now too. i was keeping it basic, because MBS should be, but now i can do some more stuff.