Thursday, January 31, 2013

soups

when I had my cold recently along with millions of others, I had chicken soup by the truckload. it is a shift of focus but it was a life and death situation and I wanted a cure, Jewish Penicillin.
I went about making my own and tried different onces. I went to Whole Food, Trader Joe, and Hannaford. All of them have their own stuff that I buy from.
The best one so far is Imagine free range chicken Broth lowfar and no added msg. What ? msg? I did not know that some people still use it. and Organic.
It had a richer taste, more like chicken soup. I add some chicken breast cut into small pieces, about two tablespoons, and celeri and carrots and cook them in the broth for about 10 minutes. The Whole Food brand was not as rich, in fact a bit bland. The low sodium is also low taste and I end up having to add salt.
I also tried the old standby of canned broth by College Inn and that  is also tasty, but may have msg in it.
The fact is it helped with my cold, gave me nutrition I needed, as well as hydration.
I am finally able to go back to my write bits of my life which are posted on the Realitystudio.com website. They asked me at first in an interview about the life on the East Side in New York during the fifties and sixties and the Cedar Bar scene. And my days as a photographer and assistant photographer and finally my adventures in going out west, meeting with Henry Miller, and then taking off for Mexico. Finally I returned to New York City and faced the music of my impeding divorce.