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18 years ago

This is going to be "shicksa matzoa ball soup"....made for Passover with my un-Kosher fingers in by un-Kosher kitchen.

It will simmer for about 7 hours, cool for 2 or 3....then I will strain it and freeze the broth. Veggies to be added later.

Linda C

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Terri_PacNW
18 years ago
it looks lovely so far Linda...
jessyf
18 years ago
(pppst Linda my hands and kitchen are unkosher too!)

I can almost smell it all the way here.
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canarybird01
18 years ago
Mmmm looks delish Linda! My kind of broth.

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lindac
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18 years ago
Well, after 5 hours it's not so pretty....but it sure tastes better! Veggies have pretty well turned to mush, chicken pretty well fallen apart and strange pieces of unidentifiable bits and pieces floating in the broth.
2 more hours to go.......
Gina_W
18 years ago
Did you use {{gwi:1515787}}
marys1000
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Gina - yeow! Thats pretty creepy.
lindac
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18 years ago
Nope....can't find the "chicken trotters" in this little berg....so I used the "fliers"...9 pounds of fliers!, an onion, about 5 cloves of garlic, the top half of a head of celery...4 or 5 carrots, a big fat leek, 1/2 a bunch of celery, a lemon, a generous Glug glug glug of ponot grigio, about 1 1/2 T salt, lots of black pepper...marjoram...no bay leaf....no dill....no sweet potato and no parsnip.
It's yummy! and will be even better after it's cooled, strained and has the good veggies cooked in it.....and a few matzoa balls for good measure!
Linda C
pkramer60
18 years ago
Linda, looks good and I bet it smells like heaven. I can direct you to some toes if you want.

Gina, you like my predicure from a few weeks ago?

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18 years ago
So is it finished yet? Or is that tomorrow? Can't wait, I want a bowl.

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lindac
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18 years ago
I just put 6 5 cup containers in the freezer. Because I left head room I expect there is only a quart in each container. I saved out about a cup and a half of meat, intended for my supper....thought I'd make a little chicken salad....but after all the skin and bones and muchey veggies and greasy kitchen, I don't want to go near chicken....and also after last week with the 2 funerals and the chicken casseroles....I am chicken-ed out!
The soup part will be this weekend for Passover....this is just the broth....all the veggies used to flavor it went down the disposer!
Oh! And I feel so smart!...I didnt' plug up the disposer! I only put the smaller bones down it and put the big ones in the garbage!
I just poured me a martini....I may drink my dinner tonight.
Oh and Chabby was so rude!! As I was straining the stuff through a piece of muslin a little at a time....she was doing the YAP! in my face...LOL! She's really a naughty bad spoiled dog....if she were a rottie it would be impossible! LOL!
Linda C
Gina_W
18 years ago
I liked it so much I saved that picture - it's truly a CF classic!

Linda did you pay Chabby her "tax" - LOL!
bubbeskitchen
18 years ago
Great looking photo, Linda

I have my soup ready to defrost, I was happy to find so much in my freezer. Less work for grandma!!
lindac
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Yep....Chabby got 2 little slivers....and then let me alone. LOL! She was really pi$$ed that I didn't immediatly give her a taste at the first tiny little yip.
She's getting sassier in her advanced years. I remember once I had company for dinner....and someone went into the kitchen for something and came back and said do you know your dog is sitting in there growling at the meat platter? LOL!
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Years ago when I would prop and design the photos for the catalog, the photographer would sometimes be critical because certain elements would make tangents with the frame or too many diagonals and the picture would "fly apart"...but that arrangement is really pretty sound...purely by accident. I guess it's the natural art of soup! LOL!
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