Sounds crazy but will drive your taste buds crazy! And knock a cold on its tush!

A delicious filling soup with only a few ingredients!

We went to Rancourt winery in Niagara on the lake for their ice wine festival. This was served with their ice wine. I have added more vegetables and spice because I like a thicker soup.

This is a soup I make for myself based off of 3 different recipes and with slight Asian influences (soy sauce, Chinese rice wine). Its very healthy and the broth is very rich. Turmeric is optional but delicious, looks tasty, and is anti-inflammatory. Sour cream rounds out the flavor and can help with texture if you decide to freeze leftovers for later.

My first day at kindergarten; I do not remember getting on the big, yellow, school bus to go home. I only remember being put on a bus. Someone put a tag on my chest that let everyone know which bus I was to take home. They put me on the wrong bus. I was only five—what did I know? I only remembered my address: “10964 McKean Road.” Everyone had been delivered safely home. I was the only one left on the bus. The bus driver asked me where did I live? I answered “10964 McKean Road.” “Show me your address!” She checked my tag and said. “You are on the wrong bus!” Makes no difference, I knew my address “10964 McKean Road.” The bus driver headed for McKean Road, I recognized my house and got off. My mother was frantic. I was over an hour late getting home. “What happened? Why are you so late?” I had no idea. I sprawled out on the dining room floor and “read” the comic section of the newspaper. My mother brought me a bowl of chicken soup. I ate it on the floor. I was oblivious to my mother’s questions. I just enjoyed my soup.Chicken soup was a staple at our home when I was growing up. At weddings a fancy version was served which was very clear and contained very fine Polish kluski, or noodles. I have since learned that the Poles do not call what we know as noodles, kluski, but reserve the word for dumplings. But in our house, all noodles were kluski. My version is the one my mother made, with lots of vegetables that grew on the farm.

I decided to try something new and ordered the lemon chicken from a Chineese restaurant, it was really good. I really like soup and was looking up lemon chicken soup recipes, they all involved a croc-pot. I am not a big croc-pot user, so I decided to try to come up with something inspired from the recipe i saw online. I saute the vegetables before putting in soup to save time. It came out very good. I also like to cook chicken myself & not use rotisserie chicken from the store in soup.

Easy to make. You can add other root vegetables per your taste.

MY VERSIONQUICK AND EASYALL IN A POT DIET SOUPLOVING IT

Traditional Mexican chicken soup, made to mine and my family’s taste.

My workplace has this soup every Friday. I didn't just want to wait till Friday of the following week to have the soup so I hunted a recipe down! A mention about the lemon grass, remove the outer layers, finely chop a length about 4-5 inches long, then chop it again! Or put it in one of those mini choppers if you have one.. you want it as finely chopped as possible. And last but not least, thank you as always to my hubby for the photography of my cooking!!