Nothing says get well soon like a nice bowl of ....celery soup

I had my recipes all planned. I was going to attempt the Essence of Celery soup. A soup that would require me to invent a different name before anyone in my family would even consider tasting, but I did not get to use my creative side in the end. My husband R. got sick this week and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to make him some old fashioned Chicken Soup, so the celery/ green lantern/ kryptonyte soup will have to wait until next week.

Back around Thanksgiving time I discovered one of the nice benefits to living in NJ. You could earn yourself a free chicken or turkey from the supermarket just by spending enough money. The only thing I ever got free from the Jewel in Chicago was a new pot. Not too bad either. This frozen chicken has been sitting in my freezer since then and it needed a way out. I looked through my book for a whole chicken recipe. I found the apricot glazed chicken, which had a picture and used a whole chicken - perfect. Recipe was not too complicated and I had all the ingredients at home. Tasted okay but nothing too special. I will attribute it to the fact that I omitted using the dried apricots and only used the apricot preserves.

So far, this cooking week not going so well, but wait, there was still a new side dish still to test out. This led me to a new milestone in my journey - the first dish that I will definitely not be making again. It didn't look good, it didn't taste good and it has some very unhealthy ingredients. Even R. who eats almost anything and hoards leftovers, pretended to look the other way when I tossed it in the garbage.

Hopefully this next week will bring better cooking luck.

17 done. 183 to go.