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[silverbromide]

Jim: "Steal a chicken's egg, you have eggs for a day. Steal a chicken, you have eggs for a lifetime."

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[czarina_laura]

Yeah - if I end up seeing a police report involving a curly-haired chicken thief, I am SO turning him in for the cash. Sorry... ;-)

[doc_smiley]

I prefer:
"Build a man a fire, he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

[chiashurb]

Or, slaughter the chicken, have meat for an evening, then eat the grain you would have fed to the chicken and stop worrying about eggs.

Which reminds me--are you willing to share what went into that tasty soup that we ate last weekend?

[silverbromide]

Right! Soup.

Two cartons of veggie broth, two cartons of mushroom broth

An onion or two

A bunch of garlic

Three-ish carrots, and maybe a few stalks of celery?

Some hulled (not pearled) barley

Mushrooms (One pack of crimini and six portobellas; i would use more/more varieties if i were to do it again)

A little olive oil which i sauteed the onions in.

1. Brown onions (mainly because i don't like un-browned onions)

2. Boil i carton of each broth with onions

3. Add barley, minced or crushed garlic and diced carrots (and diced celery?), let cook until barley is nearly done. (Hulled barley will take longer to cook but has a batter texture and is healthier)

4. Add chopped mushrooms and some water (since the barley and mushrooms eat liquid), let cook until stewy and everyone's ready to eat.

I think that's all?

[chiashurb]

Yay soup! Thank you for sharing!

[lilitusama]

Well, the chicken's lifetime, anyway.

[angus_mcnitt]

Wow, that sounds so... profound.