I remember being sick with a nasty cold a few years ago and a good friend of mine brought me a huge containerof his homemade chicken soup. I ate the soup up and instantly felt better. I have never eaten another soup like this with such magical healing properties, although I have tried several times. My latest attempt which I made tonight turned out very well but lacked the extreme healing qualities of that magical soup from my past. The soup I made was a standard chicken broth but with lots of garlic, ginger, parsley and a few jalepeno peppers. My girlfriend and I are both sick at the moment and the soup did do something to make us feel better but it is just not the same. What was in that soup? Was it the love? some mystery ingredient? or just the act of thoughtfulness? If anybody out there has any ideas on things that they use to make chicken soup when they or there loved ones are sick. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanx!
My mom makes the healing soup from very simple straightforward ingredients yet they have magical qualities every time. She uses almost a whole chicken (not just bones), carrots, a potato, parsley root, salt and pepper. It turns out to be this very concentrated but clear broth and the chicken meat is moist and very tasty especially when sick.