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From: Jill McQuown <j_mcquown@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: Chicken Soup
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 17:15:31 -0500
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On 2/4/2025 4:42 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 14:47:33 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:
> 
>> I used the carcass of our Sunday night chicken to make soup. I confess
>> that I had never had a lot of success with chicken soup in the past and
>> for some reason I used the same method. I stripped the meat off the
>> bones and threw them into a pot. I chopped some onion, carrot and
>> celery, squashed a clove of garlic and tossed them into a pot along with
>> some bay leaf and some pepper and pan drippings, added some boiling
>> water and simmered it for about two hours. I strained the broth and then
>> picked out the bones and gristly bits and returned the aromatics to the
>> broth.
>>
>> For supper we heated up the soup and added some Orzo. Holy cow. It was
>> the best chicken soup ever.
>>
>>
> I can honestly say I've never made chicken soup with a
> chicken carcass.  But then I don't buy a rotisserie
> chicken maybe once every 10 years if that often.

Dave's wife roasted the chicken, but that's not something I do often 
(nor do I buy rotisserie chicken).  I'm glad he enjoyed the chicken 
soup, though. :)

Jill