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Thermonuclear Chicken soup

   Mon, January 8, 2007 - 1:15 PM
Ok, too many sneezes on the other end of the line, so here goes:

Great Grandma Sarah's thermonuclear chicken soup (slightly updated by Francesca):
In a stockpot
Clean water- filtered about 1/2 to 3/4 full keep adding water as needed
chicken stock (organic-free range)
chicken bones & chicken (same)
1 oz vinegar-helps pulls the minerals from the bone
Bring to a boil, cook at med heat until meat has separated from bone.

take out bones and meat and cool the stock skimming off most of the fat once its cool. In the old days, they would keep the chicken fat in a jar and use it to cook with. Now with all the weird stuff going on, its better not to, just toss it. Most toxins get stored in fat.

Now you can add the bones and chicken back, bring the pot to a simmer for 30 to 45 mins or so and add:
7-12 whole cloves of garlic-just score them, no need to slice
hand full of red peppercorns
star anise-gives it a nice bracing cooling undertone
2 bay leaves-take them out after 1.5 hours
2 whole red dried chilies-gives it a kick and helps detox
1 tbsp paprika-earthy feel
Some powdered Sage to taste-goes with chicken but optional
4 chopped and sliced onions-tangy and zaps colds
8 stalks of celery medium sliced-full of minerals
1 fennel thickly sliced-ditto
5 med sized carrots, sliced- beta carotene
1 celery root peeled and cubed-minerals and helps ground the soup
1/2 cup chopped up parsley the dark green chewy kind-loads of vitamin B
Italian parsley to taste as a garnish-loads of vitamin B

Optional:
Other root vegetables-helps ground the soup
Fresh sage leaves-yummy

this tastes better on the 2nd day sometimes.



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