Your favorite soup????

[Cook Chatty Cathy]

Needless to say I had some dishes to wash when they left.

I'll bet you did now!!!

Sounds like ya' all had a great time! Did you make the biscotti? Have you ever made it? I would love a recipe posted here! hint-hint

[jglass]

I have made biscotti maybe three times. Jon doesnt like it because it says it is to hard. The few times I have made it Jon's Dad has gotten half the batch. He likes them. Back during the holidays I made chocolate peppermint biscotti. The ones she took were Nona's Chocolate Biscotti I had gotten at SAMS.

This little kitchen is so small and I have so many do dads sitting about that when I dirty a few dishes I have to wash them up lol. The sink in there is small and not deep at all.

[nubemet]

1st place are tomato soups with rice
2nd place: mushroom soups!

[cookie]

I used to Love Campbell's tomato & rice when I was a kid, now I buy the Healthy request Tomato soup from Campbell's. I like mushroom soup to mostly in casseroles. Cookie

[Cheesecakelady]

Two of our favorite soups are chicken corn soup and Italian Wedding Soup. I have good and easy recipes for both and usually double the recipe so I can freeze for later. As a matter of fact, I'm probably going to make the Italian Wedding Soup today.

Cheesecakelady

[chubbyalaskagriz]

CHZCKLADY, can you please post them? I love the wedding soup, also!

BTW- welcome! I see you're a new member! We're a fine bunch of folks who always enjoy meeting new people and making new friends!

[The Ironic Chef]

I have made biscotti maybe three times. Jon doesnt like it because it says it is to hard.

Biscotti has to be hard or it would fall a part when I dip in in my coffee. That's my favorite way to eat it. Specially when I don't have any Oreos on hand.

[Cheesecakelady]

Thanks for the welcome! This is a great place to get quick answers to questions and everyone seems so nice and helpful.

Following is the recipe for Italian Wedding Soup. I was given the recipe over 20 years ago and I have tweaked it a bit over the years. The recipe calls for whole chickens but I prefer white meat so I use the split breasts. You can use either 2 (3 pound) chickens or 6 pounds of split breasts. This recipe is the doubled recipe so you can make half if you want a smaller amount. I always make more and what we don't eat in a couple of days, I freeze to thaw and use later. This makes a large pot of soup.

Italian Wedding Soup

Ingredients:
6 pounds of split chicken breasts
2 pounds of fresh carrots
1 large onion
celery tops for stock
6 chicken bouillon cubes
1 teaspoon garlic salt (or to taste)
1 teaspoon accent (or to taste)
1 teaspoon onion powder (or to taste)
1 can of chicken broth
2 pounds hamburger
2 diced cloves of garlic
1/4 cup parsley
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 cup dried bread crumbs
salt and pepper to taste
2 cups orzo pasta
1 box frozen spinach, thawed
(sometimes I add other spices to the chicken stock depending on what I have on hand and what sounds good at the time.)

Directions:

Place chicken in a large pot and cover with water. Make a stock of celery tops, carrots and onions, bouillon cubes, garlic salt, Accent, onion powder, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil with the lid on then simmer for 1 and 1/2 hours to 2 hours on low. When the chicken is cooked,take it out of the pot and strain the broth. Dice the carrots and place back in the broth.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and make the meatballs by combining the hamburger, 2 diced cloves of garlic, 1/4 cup of parsley, 1/2 teaspoon of oregano, dried bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Form into bite sized meatballs and place on a jelly roll pan. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, cut up the cooked chicken into bite sized pieces.

Bring the broth with the diced carrots in it back to a boil. Add the orzo to the boiling broth and cook as directed on the package. In the last 5 minutes add the thawed and drained spinach. When finished cooking, put the cooked meatballs and chicken into the pot and enjoy!

[chubbyalaskagriz]

RE: "Following is the recipe for Italian Wedding Soup."

Thanks CHZCKLADY! Looks absolutely delish!

[cookie]

Hi Cheesecakelady, I'm Cookie , Your Italian wedding soup sounds Good. I always enjoyed that soup but never made it. I never realized there was chicken in this soup. I thought it was just very small meat-balls and spinach and little pasta pieces (orzo)? I didn't know what those little pasta pieces were called. Thanks for sharing your recipe. Cookie