135 - Soup

Theme 3.

After we have a roast chicken, Mum usually makes her special chicken soup. Boiling down the bones to make chicken stock, then adding a packet mix (there's sometimes golden vegetable, sometimes spring something or other), sweet corn and then usually peas, carrots and beans, sometimes potatoes (using up any excess cooked for the roast meal, or else tinned, but freshly cooked potatoes). It's much richer, creamier and slightly saltier than tinned soup, and also tastes fresher and less processed than canned soup, which always tastes fatty to me. In fact, Mum's is the only chicken soup I'll eat.

They'd bought a French baguette from a local shop, one of those small and slim ones that are just perfect for dunking in the soup!