Thurs 28 Jan

Week is making some inexorable progress toward the weekend but it sure seems slow. Was nice to have hot homemade soup last night. We're kind of in the doldrums with nothing major going on so time moves slowly.

I don't actually have a recipe for my poultry soup. I just boil the carcass or even a package of chicken pieces in a large kettle for a few hours, adding water to replace evaporation several times. I usually put about 1/4 c chopped onion, salt, pepper, and basil in with the boiling chicken. I don't measure, but I add all quite liberally. When I'm ready to proceed, I remove all meat and bones to cool and pick through the good stuff to return to the pot. I add a bunch of sliced carrots and celery and chopped onion, more salt, pepper and basil and cook for at least another half hour til veggies are done. Then I add the German egg dumplings and we eat.

Usually I make the soup with a bird that has already been roasted for a previous meal. There are probably seasonings in the meat from that process also. I have made it with fresh chicken, and now that you remind me, I'm thinking it wasn't quite as flavorful that way. You might try buying a rotisserie chicken from the grocery and using that as the base for the soup.


Food:

7:00 am 1 c Trader Joe's multigrain flaxseed cereal, 1/2 c light original soy milk, 1/4 cantaloupe, coffee
11:45 am Vanilla soy shake, prune ponczka, med banana
4:00 pm Fit & Active Cinni-Crisps
6:00 pm BBQ with Healthy Life wheat bun, Mott's Mango Peach cup, 12 oz light original soy milk



Exercise:

5:10-6:10 am Lotte Berk High Round Assets and Hip Hugger Abs videos