{"id":820,"date":"2009-05-27T07:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T05:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2009-05-28T09:05:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T07:05:49","slug":"chicken-soup-with-a-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=820","title":{"rendered":"Chicken soup with a soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A.K.A. <a href=\"http:\/\/gorgeoustown.typepad.com\/lex_culinaria\/2005\/11\/post.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mexican Chili, lime and chicken soup<\/a>, straight from <a href=\"http:\/\/gorgeoustown.typepad.com\/lex_culinaria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Culinaria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s6301333r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-839\" title=\"s6301333r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s6301333r-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s6301333r-300x291.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/s6301333r.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A while ago (actually, months ago) I cooked up a pot of chicken stock. I&#8217;d saved the leftover bones and bits from braai-ed marinaded flat chickens, three of them. Flat chickens are cheap and lekker, and the leftover bits make great stock.<\/p>\n<p>I defrosted the pot (yea, I stuck the whole pot in the freezer, I was out of containers&#8230;) of stock, used it for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=811\" target=\"_blank\">mushroom soup<\/a>. There was about a litre left over, so last night I tried Lex&#8217; recipe.<\/p>\n<p>And it rocks.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago (actually, months ago) I bought a polystyrene tray of mixed chillies. Yes, I stuck it in the freezer too. Gotta love a deep freeze. Out of this I pulled what looks a bit like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chilipeppermadness.com\/pimento-chili-pepper.html\" target=\"_blank\">pimento<\/a>, but completely round, and a little yellow triangular thing which looks a bit like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chilipeppermadness.com\/santa-fe-grande-chili-pepper.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe<\/a>, but which might be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g6csy.net\/chile\/var-p.html\" target=\"_blank\">Praire Fire<\/a>, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g6csy.net\/chile\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chile Head<\/a>. Gads, I need a book on identifying chillies. I also bought, last weekend, a long yellow something that tastes more like a sweet pepper than a chilli. Anyway, used half of one, half of the other, and the whole yellow thing, because Tanya also wanted some soup, and she&#8217;s not as accustomed to the hot stuff as I am. Removed the pips, of course.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest, pretty much followed the recipe.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to try to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g6csy.net\/chile\/growing.html\" target=\"_blank\">propagate chillies<\/a> from once frozen seeds. Because I really liked the taste of this mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.K.A. Mexican Chili, lime and chicken soup, straight from Lex Culinaria. A while ago (actually, months ago) I cooked up a pot of chicken stock. I&#8217;d saved the leftover bones and bits from braai-ed marinaded flat chickens, three of them. Flat chickens are cheap and lekker, and the leftover bits make great stock. I defrosted the pot (yea, I stuck the whole pot in the freezer, I was out of containers&#8230;) of stock, used it for the mushroom soup. There was about a litre left over, so last night I tried Lex&#8217; recipe. And it rocks. A while ago (actually,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}