Chicken soup is all about love! What’s the one thing you want to eat when you’re feeling under the weather? Chicken soup! Because it’s loaded with vegetables, it really does help you to get better. It’s got lots of nutrition and a hot mug will warm you down to your toes on a cold winter’s night.
Chicken soup, homemade and savory, is super easy to make. Ideally, you’ll start with the leftover chicken frame and meat from your homemade roast chicken but in a pinch, a rotisserie chicken will work fine. This is an easy recipe to add to your collection and one you’ll make again and again, I promise!
Basics
Five Easy Homemade Staples
I grew up eating real cheese, real eggs, real butter, real food. Maybe I’m trying to bring back those days in my own kitchen. Plus, food production today is quite different than it was in the 60’s and 70’s when I was a child and young adult. Our food supply has changed a great deal and I’m just trying to get back to basics. So, in no particular order, here’s a list of simple but yummy foods to make from scratch. None of them are difficult at all and when you sprinkle some homemade croutons on your Caesar salad, your family will practically swoon! Master these 5 and you are a certified Kitchen Princess!
Roast Chicken Salad
We had an authentic old fashioned diner in Westfield, New Jersey, the town where I grew up. It was called The Excellent Diner and they had the best chicken salad sandwich ever. I would go after school with friends and I always ordered a chicken salad sandwich on rye toast with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. Oh, and a side of well done french fries! It was heavenly chicken salad and I’ve endeavored to recreate it here. It’s not necessary to roast the chicken first but when you do, it gives your chicken salad a wonderful, deep flavor. You can use rotisserie chicken instead of roasting it yourself. This recipe is so easy! I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think!.
Sweet and Spicy Apple Butter
Fall is in the air. Leaves are turning, apples are ripe for the picking, pumpkins appear on doorsteps. It’s the season for all things apple!
I adore apple butter and I’ve discovered how really easy it is to make. What I love about this recipe, other than the warm fragrance of apples, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves filling your kitchen, is the fact you don’t have to peel a single apple. When you’re staring 6 pounds of apples in the face believe me, you’ll be glad not to have to peel them!