It is not often that I toot my own horn, but as I am sitting here eating my leftover chicken soup from shabbos, I have to admit that I make a pretty good chicken soup.
It has the right combination of aroma, flavor and good old motherly comfort. In case there is anyone out there who is in dire need of a good chicken soup recipe, here is mine:
4-6 pieces of skinned dark meat chicken
2-3 carrots peeled and sliced
1 turnip cut up
1 parsnip pelled and cut up
2-3 yellow onions peeled and cut in half
1 medium to large sweet potato peeled and cut up
2 zucchinis (unpeeled) sliced (2 inches or so)
2 stalks of celery washed and sliced
fresh parsley and dill
generous sprinkles of salt and chicken consomme
few pinches of ground pepper
Put ingredients in large stock pot and fill with water. Cook on medium flame for 2-3 hours. Let cool on stove and then refridgerate overnight. The next day, remove the herbs and skim the fat off the surface of the soup. Reheat and serve. Enjoy!
(FYI, for good matzoh balls, just get the Croyden House or Mother's Matzoh Ball Mix.)
Press Release AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW
January 27 , 2006
Israeli soldier authors best-selling novel on Middle East conflict
******Little, Brown publishes MATCHES by Alan Kaufman, about an American Jew serving in the Israel Defence Forces in Gaza and West Bank*****
******MATCHES makes San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller list
Alan Kaufman, author of the recently released novel MATCHES (Little, Brown; 245 pages; $13.95 paperback served as a combat infantry soldier on the front lines of one of the most unremitting armed face-offs in the world: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
MATCHES has so far received rave reviews. In her front page review of MATCHES in the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, Elizabeth Kien wrote:” San Francisco author Alan Kaufman is an American who joined the Israeli Defence Forces two decades ago and returned for multiple tours of duty, most recently in 2003. He writes as a man at peace with his dedication to Israel and the horrors he has witnessed patrolling the Gaza Strip. But the voices in his new novel, "Matches," bristle with the barbs of young men who have something to prove. You hear it in the edgy insults bandied about by brothers-in-arms -- the friendly jibes tinged with malice without which no war literature is complete. Questions of purpose flare up through the pages of "Matches" with the regularity of mortar fire. But unlike many war chronicles, this account is not bitter. He is frank about the conditions he confronts, detailing the stench, squalor and perfidy of Gaza with philosophical righteousness.”
The title MATCHES is an Israeli army term for a soldier, or one who "strikes, burns, and dies."
Publishers Weekly calls MATCHES:”A fascinating look at the story behind the numbing newspaper tallies.”
Booklist says: “MATCHES shows how war damages a man's soul. This is Catch-22 without the comic relief, a stunning tale of betrayal, guilt, love, and war.”
Ecclectica calls MATCHES: “The first great war novel of the 21st Century.”
CONTACT INFORMATION:
**To interview Alan Kaufman, please contact 415-567-6689 or Akpoem2@aol.com
**For a copy of MATCHES and press materials, please contact Bonnie Hannah, Little Brown Publicity Department, 212-522-8069 or bonnie.hannah@twbg.com
Sounds yummy! I'll have to come for Friday night some time soon ;-)
Posted by: Sara at January 31, 2006 09:21 AMI'm trying your way this week. Mine hasn't been good recently.
Posted by: Lanie at January 31, 2006 12:28 PMBe honest...who else makes a really good chicken soup...good for the soul and for sick ones...ahem ahem!!
Posted by: your mother at February 1, 2006 04:45 PM