Chicken Soup 🥣| Fed & Feral Cookbook🍽️

I made this while I was sick and dramatic and wandering around in sweatpants like a Victorian ghost, and honestly? It slapped. So here’s my loose, chaotic, emotionally healing recipe for sick day chicken soup:

🧄 Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts (or thighs if you're feeling sexy)

• 2 stalks of celery

• 2 carrots

• ½ a big sweet yellow onion

• Fresh herbs (thyme, rosemary, flat-leaf parsley)

• 1–2 tbsp butter

• Splash of olive oil

• 1 tbsp flour (optional, for that stew-ish thickness)

• 1–2 tbsp pre-chopped garlic (or crush your own if you’re superior)

• Salt & pepper to taste

• Paprika, onion powder, garlic salt, white pepper, celery seed

• 32 oz chicken bone broth

• A glug of dry white wine (I used Sauvignon Blanc)

• Soy sauce (for umami)

• Hot sauce (for drama)

🔪 Instructions:

• Mirepoix that bitch
  Rough chop ½ a big yellow onion, 2 carrots, and 2 celery stalks. Doesn't need to be fancy—just not fingerless. Keep your knuckles in mind unless you're aiming for a body part in the stew.

• Chicken time
  Slice chicken breasts however you want (thin strips, cubes, abstract). Season with salt, pepper, and if you’re feeling it, toss in a tablespoon of flour. Brown them in a Dutch oven with some olive oil until they get a little color, then set aside. No need to overthink it. We're sick.

• Melt and sauté
  Toss in butter to the hot pan. Add your mirepoix and a little salt. Sauté until soft-ish. Deglaze with that splash of wine and scrape up all the flavor bits from the pan.

• Season like a witch
  Toss in garlic (I used lazy jar garlic, sue me), paprika, celery seed, onion powder, garlic salt, white pepper, and all your chopped herbs. Mix that potion.

• Reunite the chickens
  Add your chicken back in. Pour in the entire 32 oz carton of bone broth. Bring it to a simmer.

• Simmer down
  Let it cook low and slow for 20–30 mins while you scroll on your phone and forget you were cooking. Stir occasionally, taste, adjust salt/pepper.

• Spicy secrets
  Add a splash of soy sauce and a few dashes of your favorite hot sauce. Helps with the sinuses. Helps with ~life~.

• Serve
  Eat it straight from the pot in your sweatpants. Or pour it into a cute bowl if you’re feeling photogenic.

🖤 Notes from the Sick Kitchen:

• I made this while half-dead and horny for comfort food. It's not fancy. It's not revolutionary. But it hits.

• Trader Joe’s has a pre-chopped mirepoix if you wanna cheat. I won't judge you. I’ll probably love you more.

• The trash plate or bag is essential.

• Optional garnish: a fuckin’ blanket, Netflix, and me in your ears.

Hope this nourishes your little soul. I love a dirty soup made with clean hands and no plan.
Let me know if you make it… or if you want a video of me chopping like a French maniac again.

🫠🥣
—A