Yesterdays dinner. Dieting is hard.

I had made my own chicken broth from a whole chicken carcass I broke down the week before and chicken spines I had frozen previously with leek tops, carrot, garlic, onion, lemon, salt, pepper, parmisean rind, thyme and basil, simmered for 3 hours then strained it and set aside

For the veggies I just did whatever I had on hand for the soup

- sweet potato

- carrot

- garlic

- onion

- corn

- Swiss chard

- grape tomatoes

For the chicken it was what I had in the freezer which was 1 chicken breast and 7 drumsticks, I took the skin off the drumsticks and put them in a pot with just enough water to cover the meat, salted the water and brought it to a boil, then turn it down to low and simmer for 20ish mins then remove and shred chicken

Then build your soup as you normally would!

With semi-sweet chocolate chips and chopped pecans mixed in.

The bechamel for the Mac was made of the rendered pork fat and butter.

The carrots were heritage varieties