Old world chicken soup

Chicken second courses

When I was eight years old, my family immigrated to the States (from Germany) and that's about the time my mother made chicken soup every Friday since chicken was relatively inexpensive and a entire family (five people) could be fed. (We did have chicken soup in Germany - but very rarely due to the expense.) Chicken Soup was never a favorite of mine since we had it on a regular basis and my mother would use rice instead of noodles most of the time - when she did use noodles, I loved it. Fast forward - I started making my own Chicken Soup for my family (not every week - maybe 3 to 4 times a year and it definitely is one of our favorite meals. I still use my mothers ingredients (she never used recipes) and had to come up with my own recipe which I use all the time now. My Chicken Soup (as my mother's) is not part of a meal, it's the whole meal - protein, starch and vegetable (chicken, noodles and carrots). You'll notice that I don't use a whole chicken instead I use leg quarters because they offer dark meat and the most amount of bones which gives it the flavor and richness. Hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do.