MCS Help

There is absolutely nothing better for you when you are recovering from a cold or the flu.  But you’ve already heard this . . . so how do you make a batch of really good chicken soup?  It’s very easy.  Anyone can do it.

Start with a good chicken if you can.  If you can raise your own, that’s best.  But not everyone can do that, I realize, so the next best is a good organic one from the health food store.  If you can’t afford those (I can’t either, I raise them myself!) then get something that looks good from the grocery store.  Anyway, once you have your chicken, roast it.  Just put it in the oven (in a roasting pan or cast iron skillet) at 325 degrees for an hour or so (this depends on the size of the bird) until it is nicely brown.

At this point you can remove most of the meat and use it for something else.  Take the carcass, or if you are using chicken breasts, just cut up the meat a bit, and place them in a good-sized pot and cover the meat with water.  Put it on the stove, bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat to barely a simmer and leave it alone for 3 hours.  By this time the meat will be very tender.

Let it cool a bit then pour everything through a strainer into a large bowl.  Set aside the broth (or drink it now if that’s what you’re after) and pick the tender meat off the bones.  Add them back to the broth, cook up a little rice (you can do this while you’re simmering your chicken if you are organized—I wouldn’t advise using noodles as they are white flour), add a little salt if you wish, and you have a delicious homemade chicken soup.

This will freeze very well, so if you want some for another day, just put it in smallish freezer containers.

Gluten-Free Tapioca Biscuits

These biscuits are delicious but high in carbos so if you have a Candida condition, do be careful how many you eat at one time.

1 and 1/3 cups tapioca flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

Dash salt (optional)

5 tablespoons butter, ghee, margarine or oil

1/4 cup milk or milk substitute (do not use water; use real milk or real soy milk, not powdered)

Combine dry ingredients and cut butter or oil into flour until it becomes crumbly. Add milk until a soft dough forms. Pat into biscuit shapes. Bake on a lightly oiled cookie sheet for 10 minutes at 375. Double the recipe and use it as a pizza crust. It is a very nice alternative to wheat crust. Bake pizza crust for 10 minutes before adding toppings. Bake an additional 20 to 25 minutes or until your toppings are done.