ooooh chicken soup - this is my Italian grandma's recipe, but unlike a lot of Italian grandma's she was actually a pretty lousy cook (EXCEPT for this chicken soup - I loved my grandma, but serioulsy she used Ragu. I think that cooking for her 10 or 11 brothers and sisters from the time she was a pre-teen, after her mom died, probably burned her out early) so I don't know that its particularly Italian.

Chicken wings (I acutally prefer other cuts of chicken since wings are really hard to get the meat/bones separated, but I think she liked them becasuse they were cheap...)
2 or 3 tomatoes cut in quarters
4 or 5 stalks of celery cut in 2 inch pieces
1 onion cut in eighths or quarters depending on the size of the onion
cover with water and simmer all until the chicken is falling off of the bones, the tomatoes and onions have all but dissolved and the celery is nice and soft

cook a cup of pastina (little pearl pasta) separately, so it won't cloud the soup and add to the cooked soup

serve with pepper and some grated parmesan or romano cheese
this also works nice with left over turkey