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As it’s starting to get very nippy in our drafty old house, my mind has been full of Chicken soup. And not just any chicken soup, the chicken soup that I dubbed The Best Chicken Soup in the Universe. Susie made it for a bunch of us at a spring/summer photo shoot we were having in December. Brrr. No one was wearing enough clothes. (Well, except Susie because she was taking photos, but I’m guessing that she might have also gotten cold because we were outside pretty much any time there was sun. She was probably not the-ground-is-covered-in-frost-and-we-thought-it-would-be-a-good-idea-to-take-this-photo-barefoot-first-thing-in-the-morning cold, but still it was quite nippy.)

Most recently, while we near the end of our second week of desperately making tags until we thought our fingers would fall off and we would die of boredom, Susie offered to make chicken soup. This seemed like the perfect thing. We weren’t sleeping very much each night trying to get everything done and we were all feeling a bit run-down. This seemed like it would be perfect to stave off any sickness. So she made her Roasted Garlic Chicken Soup, which Amy’s kids were trying to make into a Halloween soup – Six Heads (of roasted garlic) 2 Corpse (of chicken) Soup. It was really good and just what we needed to get us through the final push with our health intact.

So when Susie texted me this morning and said that her lymph nodes were swollen and her throat was sore, my hope was that she could get her hands on some soup. It might also be because I’m craving soup more fiercely than a pregnant woman craves pickles and ice cream, but I could really use some awesome soup right now and I can’t imagine that anything would make Susie feel better and be more immune-boasting than Susie’s Best Chicken Soup in the Universe. Judging by our search terms, Chicken Soup is on everyone’s minds right now.

Of course now I want to know the story of the weeping camel, but I’m pretty impressed that almost HALF of the top searches bringing people to the blog from search engines is about chicken soup. The good news is that these people will NOT be disappointed. This is good soup.

Susie assures me that she’ll get some chicken soup this weekend, as she’s staying with her friend Kris who makes awesome things like delicious-smelling crock pot meatballs. (I had a plane to catch, I didn’t have time to try a meatball, I only go a whiff. They could have been terrible, but delicious-smelling, but I’m guessing they were pretty good.) I think that this long weekend I need to do future-sick-me a favor and make some chicken noodle soup and stick it in the freezer. And if you want to do the same, I’ll leave this picture of a steaming bowl of The Best Chicken Soup in the Universe for you.

Oh yeah, and here’s the recipe.