In January it' so nice, while slipping on the sliding ice, to sip hot chicken soup with rice. Sip it once, sip it twice, sipping chicken soup with rice!
This was possibly the best chicken soup I’ve ever made. It included the last of a red pepper, three sausages and a small container of leftover rice. And yes, my house smelled like heaven for hours and hours.
Plus, I got to have the Carole King singing in my head all day long.
Please tell me I’m not the only one who sings this song whenever I eat chicken soup with rice. 😉
Katy Wolk-Stanley
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Well now I’ll be singing it. Just like I sing Timbuk 3’s “Dirty Dirty Rice” every time I succumb to my fried-chicken vice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxKv2qx6IOA
erm…maybe you are the only one…that song was new to me!
I think people who are my age (44) are going to have all sorts of warm fuzzy memories about the TV special that had all the “Nutshell Library” stories set to music by Carole King.
😛
Katy
LOVE that song. And LOVE chicken soup with sausage in it!
It was the first time I’ve added sausage to chicken soup, and let me tell ya’, it won’t be the last.
Soooo yummy.
Katy
Aren’t you going to share the recipe? Don’t be a tease!
I am seconding this one. Would love to know the recipe, not so much for the recipe, but the proportions. I have trouble with that in soup. And believe me, it does matter sometimes!
I know the poem not the song
Rice is tricky in a slow cooker.
Exactly! I love the crockpot but rice is the only thing I’ve tried that HASN’T worked. Katy, please share the basic recipe – times, etc.
thanks!
Yep, still sing it. Really Rosie is a big favorite. In fact, when Hannah was little we bought the DVD.
We have a short DVD with this song, other Nutshell songs, Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, all by Maurice Sendak. I was just wanting my kids to watch it the other day because it was a staple last year and I love the Chicken soup song. November is my favorite.
“In November’s gusty gale I will flop my flippy tail
And spout hot soup-I’ll be a whale!
Spouting once, spouting twice
Spouting chicken soup with rice”
Recipe???
This is so funny because I woke up at 4:30AM yesterday to my 2-yr old (Ramona) singing this exact song to herself. My first thought was “That’s adorable!” My second thought was “Go the heck back to sleep kid, it’s 4:30 in the freaking morning!” Ah, parenthood.
Chris,
Maybe she heard me singing it all day yesterday!
Katy
I remember my son, daughter and me singing that song over and over back in the 70’s….does roast chicken count? That’s what’s in my oven on a gray Austin day. The aroma is divine.
Love the book, love the song, love the soup!!
I have to admit, I’ve never heard of it — not ringing any bells. But *now* it’s stuck in my head. Thanks.
You’re welcome. 😉
Katy
I’m 42, and I had the record (a 45)! I thought it was a merely a song before I knew about the book.
No, but I do sing Carole Bayer Sager’s “You’re Moving Out Today” when… oh, you get the picture! Haven’t had to sing that since 2001.
Thanks for the dinner suggestion, Katie! I made a pot of chicken and rice soup with the chicken breasts I had thawing in the fridge. I had everything else on hand, including the long-cooking brown rice that I only use for soup. I cheat and use instant brown rice for all other meals.
Sounds delicious. I only make chicken soup with rice when I have leftover rice, and I make sure to add it right at the end of the cooking, as it will get soggy and gelatenous otherwise.
Katy
I’m new to your blog, and I’m shocked to learn in the second post that I’m reading that you eat meat (and/or make it for your family). This seems to MASSIVELY contrast with your stated values on your blog and most of your reasons for reducing your consumerism. Cutting meat out of one’s diet is the biggest thing any of us can do to reduce environmental destruction, not to mention opting out of animal cruelty. Buying meat also contributes your dollars to some of the worst forms of consumerism on the planet – giant meat produces are worse than producers of just about anything else in terms of their environmental destruction, cruelty to animals, endless violations of labor laws and use of under-paid illegal immigrants, taking corporate welfare from the government, and misleading consumers with false information about products that are unhealthy for them.
I LOVE the song and the food!
When I was a girl, we had a video of Really Rosie and that song is on the show. I also had tiny red books of Chicken Soup With Rice, Pierre, and some other songs from Really Rosie. I still have those 2 and I read them to my kids!