sean's place

Soup Update

The soup really developed a lot more flavor and came together after sitting for a few hours. So, it sort of self-brightened. Still not something I’d make for a date. Adding rice is sort of a double-edged sword. It’s really nice if you eat the soup quickly, but if you let it sit, the rice will absorb all the liquid and puff up. So soup becomes a ricey-porridge. Still was pretty good.

I polished it off for breakfast (I really only made enough for 3 guilty servings [since it's reasonably healthy, I'm not feeling too guilty]). If I were to do things differently, I’d prepare the roux in advance and let it cool (roux does best if its base temperature is opposing the liquid I want to thicken with it) and drop the rice in favor of some sort of noodle. I’d also make the broccoli florets smaller and add bigger chunks of chicken. I’d also preroast the chicken to bring out extra flavor and use a full bay leaf rather than little dried chunks.

But, I wasn’t so much in the market for soup as I was for clearing out stuff from my refrigerator. Soup was just the most logical vessel to throw a bunch of stuff into.