{"id":1828,"date":"2011-05-09T12:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T17:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2011-06-01T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:05:11","slug":"soup-17-chicken-n-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/soup-17-chicken-n-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Soup #18 Chicken &#8216;n Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/chicken_side_bigger.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1829\" title=\"chicken_side_bigger\" src=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/chicken_side_bigger.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>Last week&#8217;s soup, which hasn&#8217;t actually been written up yet on account of my being very, very busy, was a variant on Hungarian Goulash, made with cabbage and ground beef. Comments ranged from &#8220;fabulous&#8221; to &#8220;edible,&#8221; depending on where a spicy goulash fell in my test crew&#8217;s comfort zones. I liked it pretty well, but ground beef will never replace chuck for goulash.<\/p>\n<p>To follow up I promised a soup that should fall in the center of everyone&#8217;s comfort zone; Chicken and Rice, made from one of those roasted chickens you find by the checkout at the supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been traveling during the week and spending all weekend in class for the last two weeks, that fit my schedule perfectly. Sunday night I could have a low stress dinner with my gal, and leftover bones\u00a0 and bits could go into making stock, while the extra meat got split up between lunches and soup.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Making the soup was straightforward, and though I&#8217;m too tired right now to make it look like a recipe, here&#8217;s how it went.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1862.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1837\" title=\"DSC_1862\" src=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1862-1024x775.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1862-1024x775.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/DSC_1862-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, I sauteed up a cup of chopped onion, a cup of carrots, and a cup of celery in a little oil until the onions were soft.<\/li>\n<li>I put them in the stock pot and added two quarts of water and brought it to a simmer.<\/li>\n<li>After stripping the carcass of most of the good meat, I added it to the stock, as well as<\/li>\n<li>a generous tablespoon of Better Than Bullion Low Sodium Chicken Base<\/li>\n<li>I added a teaspoon of salt, a pinch of sage and a larger pinch of rosemary to the stock<\/li>\n<li>Covered, simmered for half an hour and strained the stock out using my mesh strainer.<\/li>\n<li>I did save out the carrots, but threw the rest away<\/li>\n<li>I brought the stock back to a simmer and<\/li>\n<li>added a cup of dry rice (Nashiki)<\/li>\n<li>which I cooked for 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>I added a cup of celery, and a cup of the chicken, chopped coarsely<\/li>\n<li>and cooked that for another five minutes before adding in the cooked carrots.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s pretty much it, except for some adjusting to the seasoning at the end&#8230;and I should have added more salt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s soup, which hasn&#8217;t actually been written up yet on account of my being very, very busy, was a variant on Hungarian Goulash, made with cabbage and ground beef. Comments ranged from &#8220;fabulous&#8221; to &#8220;edible,&#8221; depending on where a spicy goulash fell in my test crew&#8217;s comfort zones. I liked it pretty well, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}