Chicken Leek and Matzo Soup (3/24/2020)
Chicken Leftovers Stock: Put in a soup pot with water: -1 rotisserie chicken carcass -tops of some leeks -brussel sprouts roots (obviously interchangeable with whatever you have) -any other recent scraps (1 carrot root, the white peel of an onion & the roots) -Simmer covered 2 hrs, let cool while you figure out your cooking life. -Have an existential crisis about whether you want to make potato soup or matzo ball soup -discuss with your mother, who doesn’t like matzo balls, but remember you kept back schmaltz just to make matzo balls so you better make them anyway Gentile Matzo Ball Soup: -Make matzo ball dough with schmaltz according to mix (except not since the mix doesn’t call for chicken fat but all the legit Jewish cooking videos you saw on youtube use schmaltz soooo) -In olive oil (or vegan butter, probably vegan butter), fry the edible leek parts that you diced up. -strain the Chicken Leftovers Stock into the leeky part (ha leeky part) and then add like a tbsp of msg-free chicken maggi instead of salt, plus a shitload (yes a shitload) of pepper since you forgot peppercorns in the stock -Add some carrot pieces, maybe consider some mushrooms idk -garlic?? -you dont need garlic Lizy you used all 3 leeks -make matzo balls and put them in the soup -maybe now is the time to consider mushrooms idk -cook it for like 30 mins i guess -add in that one leftover chicken thigh worth of chicken. -put the dill weed on it since you bought dill weed just for this even though leek and dill weed is kind of a weird combo. -also stop stress buying groceries just make a list and stick to it. this is how you got matzo balls in the first place. Wanna hear a not-funny story? I stress bought matzo dough mix at the store because I was stress-buying lots of things, saw the Passover display, and was like “well maybe if I eat Passover food COVID will just Pass Over me. That’s how that works. Right?” (it is not). And then I got home and was like “I am an actual idiot why am I the only person in my house in an age range that can go buy groceries.” Eat this soup while contemplating what is wrong with me.
