All of my girls have colds this week, so I decided to make garlic chicken soup. My mother, like most, swore by chicken soup as a remedy for colds. Garlic is also a natural antibiotic. And although a cold is a virus, it couldn’t hurt.
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Karl’s Miso Soup
Miso soup is an almost daily staple of a Japanese diet. In the West many soups start with a base of chicken broth. In Japanese most soups start with dashi. The dried soup base, Hon Dashi, is sold in most supermarkets (at least on the West Cost). I have never been sure how much to use so I think I have been using too little, because if there are instructions on the bottle they are all in Japanese. One of the websites I was on while researching this meal was recommending 1 tsp. of Hon Dashi per cup of water. Since the bottles only contain about three tablespoons, it would take almost a whole bottle to make a soup for the family. See Karl’s Yosenabe for instructions on making it from scratch.
Karl’s Miso Soup
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Karl’s Chicken Udon Soup
Myr got sick as she was coming back from Peru so she wanted comfort food. In our house this usually means an Asian chicken soup. I found a Cooking Light recipe that was close to what I wanted and with only a few tweaks I developed what I was looking for. I saw some fresh bamboo in the Japanese store that I just couldn’t pass up. Another recipe called for using marinated chicken, instead of the shredded cooked chicken of the Cooking Light recipe. Continue reading
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