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Alright, for this recipe you will need

3/4th a box of chicken stock (approximately 4 cups)

salt pepper

2 tbs of chives

2 cups of sliced porcinis

2 1/2 cups of ground poultry

1/2 a cup of cracker crumbs

1 whole bell pepper (chopped)

1 tablespoon of tomato paste

2 large cloves of garlic

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In your work bowl combine the poultry and half of the mushrooms (may want to mince them) half the chives, and all the cracker crumbs into a thick meatloaf base

wouldn't y'know it
you could
bake this
you could fry this
you could make swedish meatballs

you could add an egg if you felt so inclined, but ... I thought it'd be too wet.

Make gumball sized meatballs

lay them in a radial pattern in your dutch oven lubricated with some olive oil... you have one of those right?
... heavy duty pasta pot?

....
high volume untreated pot?

okay

wait until they crisp on one side
toss in the chopped bell pepper
some salt
the garlic
the other half of the mushrooms

flip the meatyballs.

Go from a fry to a saute method, you want things kinda dancing.

wait for some fonde to build on the bottom of the pot, you want a pretty high amount of heat too so things will brown and breakdown properly
when you've got some scorch and matter sticking to the pot, dump the allotted amount of chicken stock and whisk the fonde into the soup, you'll go from thick piss yellow to iced tea in no time.

... HAH! piss references in a food blog.

I can't help it, that's what chicken stock and vegetable stock looks like to me

and now it always will to you too.

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When you have the darkness up and combined, toss in the remaining chives, salt, pepper to taste, drop the tomato paste combine. Lower heat to a simmer.

That's my chicken soup.

Now...

what do you do with it?

Well- you could add precooked: brown rice, macoroni, dumplings, gnocchi, couscous, or just serve it immediately with some artisan bread.

I don't care.

Get it in you.

Your achey sniffely head will thank you later.

You owe me for these meatballs.
Ho damn they're good.