Comments on: What’s Cooking Wednesday: Homemade Chicken and Rice Soup

By: Baotou

Baotou — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:12:09 +0000

Hi: Nice post. Looks this is very amazing and delicious. I like chicken soup.This soup contains a lot of rich food, can be easier to digest.

Thanks for coming by!

By: Kashgari @ China Travel

Kashgari @ China Travel — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:53:01 +0000

Hey!
Nice recipe,
I love these kinds of soup,it is good for digestion and it agrees with you when you are feeling bad, Thanks for sharing us.

Glad you like it! Thanks for stopping by

By: Anali

Anali — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:50:06 +0000

I just made some chicken stock last week and made soup on Monday. My tip for others would be to NOT do what I did by forgetting to strain the stock. I had planned to strain it before adding it to the soup, but I forgot. Not my best cooking move. *sigh*

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Oh that’s sad, but something you’ll probably never do again at least

By: helena

helena — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:29:32 +0000

Save yourself the trouble. Chop the onion small in the first place, and absolutely add the rice to the broth. What point is there cooking it separately? The rice also absorbs the wonderful chicken flavour. I’d go easy on the chard, which is a bitter counterpart to the relative sweetness of the other ingredients.

I don’t chop the onion b/c I don’t actually like eating bits of it–which is why I take it out completely. As for the rice, I would recommend not cooking it in the broth if you know you’ll have leftover because then it gets soggy and sops up the broth overnight…and I personally don’t like soggy rice/pasta. As for the chard, I actually enjoy the contrast so I go heavy on it…to each her own

By: Amanda@A Tuscan view...

Amanda@A Tuscan view... — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:08:33 +0000

Great comfort food, I always want someone to make me this when I’m feeling under the weather. amanda

Me too. If only Mom would fly over whenever I’m sick!

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:19:51 +0000

I always love a good hearty chicken soup. Especially with a little bit of homemade bread on the side. Yum. By the way, I recently cooked something up that I'll bet you would love! Amber’s last blog post..Coffee on a Fork! Oooh whatcha got over there? Hmm....

By: Jeni Hill Ertmer

Jeni Hill Ertmer — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:18:55 +0000

Boy, must be something in the air with your post today being chicken and rice soup and last night, for supper, I made -my own just-made-up recipe of Cream of Chicken and Tortelloni with vegetables soup! And it turned out really good too -even my son-in-law liked it! Although Maya told me after her first bite that she really liked it and it was "Really good, Gram" her opinion quickly changed when she discovered there were those damned evil vegetables floated about in it! KIDS! Jeni Hill Ertmer’s last blog post..No Middle Ground Hah, I remember not being too enthusiastic about veggies too...thank goodness that passed!

By: Laura at Ciao Amalfi

Laura at Ciao Amalfi — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:17:46 +0000

Ciao Michelle! Yes, as a beginner with making stock I will definitely give this a shot. It sounds simple enough… and very good! Grazie!

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Hope you enjoy it, Laura…the process as well as the soup

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:34:25 +0000

I have a couple of friends who’ve been on soup-making kicks, and they claim (just like you) that making your own stock is totally easy and totally worth it. I’m not won over just yet. I’d rather they just make homemade soup FOR me!

Well yes, that *would* be rather ideal….

By: lucy

lucy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:40:08 +0000

Definitely going to make this on the weekend!

Enjoy Lucy!