-About 2-4 bone-in chicken breasts depending on their size, skin removed

-1 whole onion

-Celery and carrots cut any way you choose. Add as many as you want. I like lots of carrots!

-S & P

-Noodles of choice

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-Put your chicken in a large pot and fill it with cool water. 

-Once it comes to a boil, skim the fat off the top and discard. Lower the heat to simmer.

-Drop the whole onion into the water.

-Add S&P to taste.

-At our house, we don’t like our veggies overcooked so I put them in according to hardness:

-I like to throw a couple of long celery ribs in the pot for flavor.

-Drop the chopped carrots in after about 30 minutes or so.

-Next, drop in the chopped celery and remove the long ribs.

-At that point, the chicken should be cooked through. Depending on the time I start the soup and when we’ll eat it, I’ll put the lid on and turn the heat off.

-About 30 minutes before eating, pull the pieces of chicken out, remove the bones, and cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Put the cut chicken back into the soup.

-Turn the heat back on and warm the soup up. 

-Boil your noodles (We like kluski or egg noodles) and serve with the soup. Don’t forget the crackers!

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Chicken Soup warms the soul! It makes you feel better when you’re sick and keeps you cozy when it’s cold outside. I know most of you have your own family recipe but I thought it would be fun to share the one I make.

Of course, this is my Mom’s recipe! The thing I probably do differently is to add a whole onion. That part of the recipe comes from my Grandma Roma.

When I was a little girl, we visited her in Michigan maybe once or twice a year. She and her husband, Grandpa Frank, lived in a modest house in a neighborhood in Detroit. I remember her always simmering a pot of chicken soup on her stove in her kitchen. I always loved her vintage enamel chrome table and red chairs where we sat and ate it. I can still picture her stirring the soup and the big, whole onion bobbing in the pot. I’m not sure how that memory stuck with me after all these years but I remember it, and my Dad confirmed it with me years later. So I do what she did. It’s my homage to her. 

When you make chicken soup, do you have a traditional recipe or is there a twist to yours? If any young cooks are reading this, chicken soup is such an economical meal that lasts for days! And it’s about the easiest recipe there is to make. 

There are still chilly days left so go until the weather truly stays warm, so make yourself a big pot of soup. Enjoy sipping the hot, soothing liquid gold. Whatever is ailing you physically or mentally, it will sure to make you feel better! Enjoy!