using up: last week’s soup(!), some chicken

The photo was the start – the jug on the left contains the remains of last week’s soup; a starter, if you will.  The jug on the right contains the water I cooked the broccoli in for Friday night’s stir fry.  The chicken is the remains of a chicken breast on the bone that we bought to tempt Bada when she wouldn’t eat. It didn’t work 🙁

I boiled up the chicken in the broccoli water, and thus obtained broccoli and chicken stock.  This went in the soup pot with the other soup, the chicken meat, some marmelised veg (leek, carrots).  I’d boiled some borlotti beans up for another dish which I shall write about later, so the water from them went in too!  I generally feel “the more, the merrier” with soup.

Then it was seasoned, and I hurled in some barley, mostly because I could.  We had it for lunch today, and it was good.  Tomorrow, in the way of soup, it will be better.