What am I eating?

What am I eating?

I started drinking broth out of a carton like the organic type that you buy at Whole Foods or Trader Joe's.  The problem is that it doesn't taste so good.  I don't think that it is really designed to be had straight out of the container, heated or otherwise.  The chicken broth tasted like they took a chicken and placed it in the water to cook without any herbs or spices.  I am assuming that the idea is that this would be a base to which one could add veggies, spices, etc.

So, I went a bit crazy yesterday and cooked two crock pots full of soup.  One is a beef soup with carrots, onions, spices, and two beef bones from Von's.  I made this is my grandmother's crock pot so I knew that it would taste good.  In the other crock pot, quite large, I took half a chicken and added carrots, onions, and a bunch of red, dried chilies for some heat.  I added quite a few chilies expecting that it might be a bit too spicy but knowing that I could thin it down, I wasn't worried. It turned out no where near as hot as i expected.  I'm happy to have made these and have access to them at any time that I feel hungry.  I have just left them in the crock pots on low.

It's funny to think that this will be my only substinence for 30 days.  It seems great and delicious today but what about in a week.  I think that I'm going to have to try some unusual spices.  We spent two summers in Turkey, like the country, and they had some unique flavors there.  I have some of the spice mixes from there and will give that a go.  And I'll probably make a turkey broth as well.  Always a favorite of mine.  Also, I bought some shrimp and crab boil which is very flavorful.  I'll try a clam soup as well.

What to do with all of the "other" parts like the chicken and veggies is the real question. I think that I'm going to try to make meals for Suzy, although I do wish that David was here as I think that he would like all of the "extras" a lot.   

So far, so good.

Here's the link to the next blog post:
http://30daybrothfast.blogspot.com/2013_09_06_archive.html