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I haz no barley. I thought I hadzt barley, but I hadztn't.

How can I make chicken soup without Wesker barley?

[ETA: on the plus side, though, there was a crayfish tail in with my cods' roes. I was just preparing them in highly-seasoned flour when my fingers found spikies. Cods' roes exist somewhere down the opposite end of the texture-spectrum from spikies, so I looked: one crayfish tail! Just the one. Don't know if that puts me up or down in the money score, but I was delighted. And it was delicious, shelled and fried in with the roes but fished out and eaten on its own, as a chef's perk...]

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Date: 2008-12-02 03:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com
Oh, I love me some crawdads...

How do you make chicken soup without barley? Why, you make it with noodles, of course, and if they are in tiny broken bits, or are tiny noodles/pasta to begin with, you end up with much the same texture.

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Date: 2008-12-02 03:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com
Yup. Tho' as soon as I put noodles into stock then I just go oriental and start adding soy and chillies and fish sauce and such. I can't help it. Which is one reason why I like to keep barley, because as soon as that's in I'm committed, I'm making regular chicken soup...

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Date: 2008-12-02 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shewhomust.livejournal.com
That'd be chicken soup with lockshen (vermicelli), which is what my grandma used to make.

Also, I haz barley.

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Date: 2008-12-02 04:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrissa.livejournal.com
My chicken soup has rice in, and eggses and lemon juice and gaaaaaaarlic.

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Date: 2008-12-02 04:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] triciasullivan.livejournal.com
It's lovely with rice.

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Date: 2008-12-02 04:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jemck.livejournal.com
My chicken soup includes grated potato. And sometimes carrot. And sometimes parnsip. Depends what vegetables are lurking and looking sorry for themselves.

And if you fry off onions with curry spices/paste of your choice, add chicken stock plus grated parsnip/apple until the desired density is achieved*, then food-process for consistency as local custom and practise dictates, before throwing in the shreds of meat salvaged from the rendered chicken carcass, why, then you have curried chicken soup.

*hereabouts, something that a spoon can stand upright in, according to my beloved husband anyway.

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Date: 2008-12-02 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frumpo.livejournal.com
ginseng chicken soup (Samgyetang) - that's what you need: most efficacious in every case.

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Date: 2008-12-02 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com
...and we all know that nobody will be surprised to learn that while I have no barley, I do indeed have ginseng...

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