The kitchen in my chicken!

Hello people! I strongly suggest you turn up the sound on Thorn in my side, put your dancing shoes on and get that bio chicken out of the fridge and prepare yourselves for my chicken soup bok bok bok squack!!!!! It is finally getting cold here in Thessaloniki, my son has a cold, my dog has started to lie on the couch (naturally forbidden but one does have a tendency to turn a blind eye) and I can finally wear my mud-incrusted boots! Today I did nothing of great value but I did 'run' the dog, I did talk to George, the homeless man, and I did go to ballet class and had a gigantic ice-cream (chocolate with orange) afterwards to soothe my pains with Erica, my new wonderful friend (and most importantly, witness of my ridiculous antics in class). I did read half of Steven King's book on writing and, lastly, I did cook my family's famous chicken soup... Now, this soup is the traditional avgolemono Greek chicken soup and is chickenlicious - healthy as healthy gets, lemony and soothing to the palate, a full meal that keeps you warm the whole day... It's a simple soup and although unpretentious, it certainly could be!

Kitchen in My Chicken Soup (said with a heavy Greek accent)

Ingredients

1 large biological chicken

2 egg yolks

olive oil

juice of 1-2 lemons

1-2 cups of rice

salt and pepper

Boil the chicken at medium heat for 1 hour or more depending on the size of the chicken, making sure you turn it over from time to time. Season the water with salt before boiling. Meanwhile put the two egg yolks in a bowl, add the lemon juice and mix. Once the chicken is ready, strain the water stock and pour it back into the pot. Add a generous amount of olive oil, season with salt and pepper and then add the rice. Also add more water, the amount depends on how thick you want the soup to be. When the rice is nearly ready, add roughly 10 tbsps of the liquid to the egg/lemon mixture making sure to mix constantly so as to avoid curdling. Pour this mixture back into the rice, mix and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Cut the chicken in strips, and serve in individual plates. Season with pepper.

In case you were wondering about the name of this post, my mom has been speaking English for more than 25 years but still confounds kitchen with chicken. Go figure. Must be a Greek thing...