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"It&amp;#039;s difficult for me to predict how my family will respond to some of the meals I make. I mean, this was chicken soup. It&amp;#039;s not very exciting. Imagine my surprise when my husband spent most of dinnertime raving about it. My children did not join in on the raves, however, because they were too busy eating. (Yes, eating!)   I know it&amp;#039;s summer and summer is not really about soup, but for me dinner is often about what I have on hand. I usually have onions and carrots in the crisper, and the last time I bought celery I bought a whole bunch, so that was in there, too. I had poached some chicken breasts for chicken salad and had 2 left, and plans to make a Hungarian stew had fallen through, so there were egg noodles in the pantry. (I always feel like Little Bear when describing what I have to put in my soup: &amp;quot;I have carrots and potatoes, peas and tomatoes. I can make soup with carrots, potatoes, peas and tomatoes.&amp;quot; Hey, some people have Proust. I have Birthday Soup.) First, I put 6 cups of water in my Dutch oven and set it over high heat. While it was coming to a boil, I chopped \u00BD an onion, 2 peeled carrots and 1 stalk of celery (and lots of leafy tops). I put the vegetables in the boiling water along with a bay leaf and 2 tablespoons chicken Better Than Bouillon (or use 6 cups of chicken stock instead of the water). Cooked the vegetables until tender; meanwhile I cut the cooked chicken into strips and added that to the pot. I ended up cooking a couple cups of egg noodles separately because the liquid in the pot seemed to low to cook the noodles properly; when they were done I drained them and added them to the soup. When I tasted, it seemed kind of bland so I added salt and pepper.  These recipes prove that soups can show off some great summer flavors:  Chicken Tortilla Soup  Spring Chicken Vegetable Soup  Chicken Noodle Soup  \u2014Kim Walker (Don&amp;#039;t forget to enter to win a copy of Julia&amp;#039;s Kitchen Wisdom. Just leave a comment here to enter.) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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