Primal Chow Chicken Soup

Before I write about the recipe, I need to get something off my chest. I was reading an article about how the most fattening restaurant is NOT Mcd's. Although it tried to be thorough about the percentage of calories, fats, sodium, etc. It never mentioned one important factor: ingredients! You can't compare a nice sit-down meal of venison, with sweet-potatoes with real butter versus a fast meal of made up food from a fast food joint such as Mcd's! The calories first of all, might be higher, but every calorie is not the same! For example: An apple has 116 calories. A low/no sugar cookie made with Splenda from this site, has only 57 calories! What would a person, who is following a low-calorie diet, do? Go for the cookie of course, and think they are doing splendid. Nope! Wrong! You might think you are doing great in counting the calories you intake, but the calories you are taking in place of natural foods are EMPTY calories. No nutritional value whatsoever! Reason why I fumed at the article. It's full of holes! Enough of my rant. Here is my recipe for the soup.

Today the forecast in our little city was windy and cold. A bit of snow in the forecast for the mountains close by, but I don't think we will see any in the valley. Our next door neighbor, State of California, has already issued a severe drought advisory. It looks grim, and I can only imagine that this coming summer it will be a brutal one. So today for this crazy weather, I decided to do a Chicken soup. Sara Fragoso has an amazing recipe for a crock pot rotisserie chicken. I prepared earlier in the day the chicken in the crock pot, and later in the evening just shredded the chicken, blended the onions with the amazing chicken broth. The recipe calls for a whole onion, sliced and scattered at the bottom of the crock pot before plopping in the chicken. It's amazing and very cheap! It makes about 4 cups of chicken stock.

Ingredients for the soup:

Add 6 more cups of chicken broth
3 carrots, diced
1 celery, diced
6 small red potatoes, diced
3 Tbl of fresh ginger
2 cups of spinach, diced
6 cloves of minced garlic
One rotisserie chicken, shredded
3 Tbl of dried dill
1 Tbl of lemon juice

Pour all the broth in a pot, and bring it to a boil. Add all the ingredients. Cook until carrots and potatoes are tender.

Chow down and enjoy!

Quote of the day:

"I trust a pig more than a man. If trust is ever broken, at least you have bacon!"