The Big Secret
As some of you may have guessed, I love to cook. I especially like to make soups of all kinds, but chicken soup in particular.

But if the truth were to be told my wonderful, Most Patient Wife really doesn't like my soup.

Especially my chicken soup.

Okay, she'll eat it and not complain. But she don't like it, and for the sake of my marriage (cuz I'm not giving up soupmaking, folks!) I have to come up with a way to make my soup in way that my wife will really enjoy. So far, the solution has eluded me.

That is, until this last batch I made the other day. MPW really liked that soup, almost as much as I liked making it. And I think I've figured out The Big Secret: what is in my soup that she doesn't like.

Normally, when I make soup, I use homemade broth. For chicken, I stew a whole bird -- giblets and all. I fill up a pot with water, the chicken and veggies and simmer it all day until the veggies are almost liquified and the meat is falling off the bones. Then I strain the whole thing, cool it in the refrigerator and skim off the fat.

MPW hates dark meat on chicken and turkey. My broth is chock full of dark meat. It's rich and full of flavor -- but the broth is made up of stuff she doesn't like.

So...the solution is to buy chicken broth (which I'm politically opposed to unless I'm sick), or to attempt to make broth with only white meat. So the next time I make soup, I know what I'm going to do.

While this may not be the most scintillating blog entry EVER for you guys, I'm loving it.

'Cuz I'm a soup geek.