It’s started to feel like the end of summer here at the rabbit hole. My tomatoes and peppers are coming in nicely, and taste great. I didn’t do so well with the squash. It seems to have succumbed to some sort of mold. I have white spots on all the leaves. I am still getting flowers but, no squash. So I will, have to try again next year. That’s really the point of this blog. To keep doing it, even when it doesn’t work out, because the learning is half the fun, and nobody REALLY wants to be Martha Stewart anyway. That’s an awful lot of pressure.
Speaking of those household things that go wrong lets talk about bugs. Nobody likes them or wants them in their house but sometimes they show up. So I have an all natural pest removal tip for you. This tip comes courtesy of Plunder Bunny, who is a pretty fantastic, crafty, geek-chic, homemaker herself. It concerns fruit flies. To get rid of the nasty little critters she puts out a shallow bowl of balsamic vinegar with a couple of drops of dish detergent in it. She covers the bowl with some plastic wrap and pokes some holes in the wrap. The flies attracted by the vinegar fly in, get trapped and meet their doom. So simple yet so genius.
The Hooligan has come down with a terrible summer cold. So I decided to make him some chicken soup. A friend of ours asked me to post the recipe so here it is..
What you need:
A Chicken – A whole soup chicken is best but chicken parts will work too
Carrots – About a pound
Turnip – One medium or two small
Parsnip – Two or three
Onions – Two or three
Celery – One rib
Parsley – fresh is best about a cup
Salt and Pepper
Rice or noodles or what ever you like in your chicken soup
What you do:
Roughly chop one of the onions, and the heart of celery. Put chicken in a big pot with the onion and the celery and some salt. Cover it with water.
Put it on high heat for about an hour till the chicken has cooked through. Take it off the heat and let it cool a bit. Remove the solids from from the broth. Put the broth back on the stove and shred the chicken, discard the bones and everything else.
Put the chicken back into the broth, chop the rest of vegetables and the parsley and add them to the pot too. Add some more salt and pepper. Let that cook over medium heat for another hour or so till all the vegetables are tender.
Cook the pasta or rice, but don’t put it in the soup. Put it in the bowl, and pour the soup over it. If you put it in the soup it will soak up all the broth.
It’s super yummy and the best thing for a husband with a terrible cold.
That’s is for this time, leave me a comment and let me know what you are making this week.
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