Name your favorite soup!

[mimitabby]

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

it sure is an Italian Recipe! and it's related to mine. the only reason i don't put pasta in my soup is because I usually make it to last several days and the pasta grows and sucks up all the broth.
I didn't know you were Italian, Eden.

[Eden]

it sure is an Italian Recipe! and it's related to mine. the only reason i don't put pasta in my soup is because I usually make it to last several days and the pasta grows and sucks up all the broth.
I didn't know you were Italian, Eden.

All the way on my Daddy's side - my maiden name was Battaglia. His grandparents were all immigrants- from near Napoli on my Grandma's side and Sicily on Grandpa's. Funny enough my Grandma's family actually lived out here in Oregon, near Tillamok, for a while when she was a kid- I seem to remember it even had something to do with a cheese factory. I didn't know that until recently. There might even still be some Tedesco relatives of mine down there for all I know - there are definitely some down in California, but its a really big family and I never got to know very many of my great aunts or uncles. My mom's family is classic American mutt - English, Irish, Scottish, German, Slovak and probably more.