Since Matthew felt so sick, he told me that he wanted some chicken noodle soup. I suppose he
wasn't sick in the traditional sense, but he did have extreme vertigo
and was bedridden so I obligingly went down to the grocery store and
bought ingredients for chicken noodle soup. I found a shrink-wrapped
packet that claimed to sell "soup ingredients." The package had celery,
carrots, parsley, and a turnip in it and I was unbelievably tempted to buy it. It would
make such hearty soup! I thought. Ultimately, I decided against it, and stuck to the shopping list Matthew gave me.
It turned out to be good soup anyway! I couldn't find any parsley, but Matt and I made the soup with his homemade chicken broth. The finished soup tasted so warm and comforting, exactly the way chicken noodle soup should. I told him that I wanted to make homemade chicken noodle soup from now on; it tasted so much better than that stuff from a can. Matt told me that he love soup because it was so versatile. Well, that and the fact that soup could be seen as both a working man's meal or something really classy, like French onion soup.
All this talk about soup reminded me of a Korean soup I heard of once. Koreans made it when they were sick and so I suppose it's the cultural parallel to American chicken noodle soup. I read about the Korean soup in a graphic novel once, but the novel did not publish the recipe and I could never find it on my own. Maybe some day I'll stumble across it again. Either that, or I could ask a native Korean person about the kinds of soups made in Korea.
It turned out to be good soup anyway! I couldn't find any parsley, but Matt and I made the soup with his homemade chicken broth. The finished soup tasted so warm and comforting, exactly the way chicken noodle soup should. I told him that I wanted to make homemade chicken noodle soup from now on; it tasted so much better than that stuff from a can. Matt told me that he love soup because it was so versatile. Well, that and the fact that soup could be seen as both a working man's meal or something really classy, like French onion soup.
All this talk about soup reminded me of a Korean soup I heard of once. Koreans made it when they were sick and so I suppose it's the cultural parallel to American chicken noodle soup. I read about the Korean soup in a graphic novel once, but the novel did not publish the recipe and I could never find it on my own. Maybe some day I'll stumble across it again. Either that, or I could ask a native Korean person about the kinds of soups made in Korea.
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