With Chanukah lasting 8 nights, you need an alternative to donuts. 🕎
Order my always popular moist carrot cake, flavored with cinnamon, laced with walnuts, covered in cream cheese icing and decorated with pecans.
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Money Saving Tips with Chicken Soup
When you make chicken soup what do you do with the left over chicken? Yes it's had most of the juice sucked out of it, but very little of the protein goes into the soup, almost all of the protein is still there, chicken doesn't contain protein it is protein.
So, what to do with the left overs from the chicken soup?
Comment below with your ideas.
Some can go in the soup, if you wish, but there is a lot more chicken than you need for your soup.
First separate and discard the bones and skin, so you are left with just the chicken. This chicken is great for a quick midweek meal. What you need is a good flavorsome sauce to contrast with the bland and slightly dry chicken. I keep some home made Indian or Thai curry sauce in the freezer so this chicken can be quickly made into a delicious, nutritious meal. A spicy tomato Mexican sauce also works well or throw it into a stir fry with plenty of spice and flavours. You can of course also use a ready made sauce or curry paste.
Using a pressure cooker cuts down on cooking time, and gas; instead of 3 to 4 hours of simmering my chicken soup is done in 35 minutes. You can also buy cheaper ingredients that usually need a longer time to cook. These include dried beans and pulses and cheaper cuts of meat. A pressure cooker also makes the most of meat bones and carcasses, extracting every last bit of flavour from them for stock.
For a stronger stock you can save vegetable scraps, that would be thrown away and add them to the pot too.
Note: I make my chicken soup in a large batch, so there isn't space for the vegetables in the pressure cooker; these I cook separately, it ight takes about 40 minutes and it prevents then going mushy.
Enjoy winter with gallons of chicken soup
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Happy Chanukah to so my friends 🕎
One of the most original Chanukiahs. Not sure this one will make it thought the 8 nights!
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Wishing a Chanukah Semeach to all my clients, followers and friends. Hoping the miracle this Chanukah is that we can all celebrate together in peace and happiness.
