tonight the girl came down with a stomach bug. I keep our freezer stocked with homemade chicken stock always for emergencies like this. in our home chicken bone broth (stock) is considered a healing food. it fixes whatever ails ya. and frankly it’s comforting as well. Who doesn’t want a bowl of warm soup when they are on the mend?

every week I roast at minimum one organic chicken. we of course eat the meat for dinner, and then overnight I simmer the carcass (sometimes with onion) for stock for the week. with this stock we make rice, pasta dishes, indian dishes… just about everything. and occasionally the obvious – soup. if there is any left (rarely) we freeze it.

tonight I glanced in the fridge to see what I had on hand for a quick easy to digest healing dish.

• stock (with some sauteed veggies)
• rice
• egg

and so egg drop soup it was. ok so it wan’ts traditional of one country heh… but egg drop is a traditional soup in various parts of the world and of course the main ingredients – broth and eggs. the rest is purely local flair. for us it included jasmine rice. and it was best meal I’ve made in less than 10 mins in a long time.

Eli ate 4 bowls. I stopped him after that so he wouldn’t induce sickness. the rest of us liked it a lot too. why don’t I normally make this? who knows. but it’s a keeper. it’s going to be a regular staple in out home from now on.

and because this year I vowed to include more traditional Italian recipes into our diet (and let me tell you that’s not simple thing when you’re gluten and dairy free my friends) I looked up to find an Italian version…. so in honor of my husband’s heritage:

Stracciatella alla Romana

yeah… I think I just found my new favorite Italian cooking blog.