“Today I took the cold stock and removed the fat, and added a 28 oz. can of tomatoes and their juice, 2 stalks celery and a couple of carrots, sliced, 2 15 oz. cans white beans (drained and rinsed), chopped romaine lettuce and some partially cooked egg noodles. It’s still kind of bland so I’m simmering it a while before I add more salt and pepper. I did put in some dried marjoram and basil. Will let you know how it turns out.” This is from a comment from the prior post.
Now, I let it simmer for another 45 minutes and reduce by a cup or two. Then I added salt and pepper. Jim went back for seconds, in the large lion’s head bowl! Now the kitchen smells like tomato and I’d prefer for it to smell like chicken broth, but it was good and we’ve at least 12 cups of soup left in the frig. More frugal food, yea! No, the broth didn’t get to be Zoe accoutrements to her dog food. More about that later. I cleaned out a beef stock box that I don’t really like for her food the other day. She loved the boiled chicken off the bone today in the after-stock cache, however.
We enjoyed the soup with BJ’s sausage from East TX and frozen french fries. Jim had ketchup, of course. Cheers! Dee
Cooking with Dee 
At the last minute I microplaned the smallest amount of Parmiggiano Reggiano on top, which melted in to make a lovely addition.
Then, later on, I had to deal with the demon cheese on the lions-head bowls to scrape. Memories….Dee