for dinner

I made Kitchen Sink Soup for dinner tonight.

you know Anything but the kitchen sink.
(I also made more pudding.  it took less that 10 minutes!)

The only thing that is a constant in KSS is homemade chicken broth.

Today I made the broth with chicken breast bones from last night, an onion, a carrot, mushroom stems and basil leaves.  I simmered it until it smelled too good to bare anymore, then I drained the broth into a bowl and dumped the stuff, except for the carrot, I added that to the soup.
The premise of KSS is that you add what you have on hand.  Today it was:

Left over chicken
corn cut off a fresh cob
green beans
Shitaki mushrooms (the stems went into the broth!)
the carrot from the broth
buckwheat noodles.

I boiled the broth, added the stuff and waited for the noodles to be done.  Then I added more basil leaves.

I seldom don't add corn.  Usually it's frozen...
I often add a sausage.  I slice it up from frozen and add it in.
Then I add what ever veg. is in the fridge and other things laying around.  Zucchini, broccoli, garlic, onion, rice, soup beans (the cook quick), wild rice, carrots, potato, sweet potato, squash, spinach, shrimp, leftover meat/veg/pasta.

kitchen tip

I re-discovered soft boiled eggs today when J asked for a hard boiled egg for breakfast for a protein boost before his registration exam.

I don't like them hard boiled, so I made a soft boiled egg for myself.  ALAS!  We don't own any egg cups!  what is a body to do!?

bagel egg cup!

am I a genius or what?

*EDIT*

I meant to tell you *how* to do boiled eggs!

Very gently, tap the bottom (wide end) of the eggs on the counter to 'crack' the bottom...it will sound like a little click.  you obviously don't want to *break* the egg.  This is where the air sack thing is.  This helps for when the egg expands when it's cooking.  The air gets pushed out, and your egg doesn't leak!  I *think* this helps with peeling too.

Stick your eggs in *cold* water, covered.  Turn on the burner to just before high.  Bring the eggs to a *gentle* rolling boil.  If you like your eggs soft, this is when you take them out.  If you like them hard, *gently* boil for 12 minutes.  This is where you get to experiment on how hard you like them.  I like the yokes runny, but not the whites, so I let the egg sit for a minute in the gentle rolling boil.  I guess that is where you ask for timed eggs.  I like one minute eggs, some like fifteen!  I guess a medium egg is a six minute egg.

how do you like your 'boiled' eggs?