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Josh’s Chicken Stock Soup

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What to make for your sister when she is sick.  Submitted by Joshua Hurwitz (age 8).

  • 2 Tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and sliced
  • 1 large stalk celery, washed and sliced
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • 1 Tablespoon dried red onion (or 1/2 small onion, chopped)
  • 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 quart chicken stock
  • 8 ounces medium egg noodles, cooked, in salted water, according to package instructions

Heat oil in a soup pot over medium-high heat.  Add carrots, celery and onion if you’re using fresh onion, if not, wait to add dried onion.  Cook 5 minutes or so, until vegetables start to get tender.  Add garlic and dried onion (if using) and cook, stirring one more minute.  Add chicken stock and parsley.  Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer 20-30 minutes until vegetables are soft.  Put cooked noodles in individual bowls and pour soup over noodles.

Serves 6.

Chocolate Mice

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Submitted by Debbie Tenzer.

This is a wonderful project to do with children!

  • One bag of Oreo cookies
  • One bag of Hershey Kisses
  • One can of chocolate frosting
  • One bag of sliced almonds
  • One small tube, white decorative ‘writing gel’ icing
  • Colored sugar, one color or different colors

Carefully remove tops from 24 Oreo cookies, so white filling intact on the bottoms. Sprinkle white filling with colored sugar. Set cookies aside.

Unwrap 48 Hershey Kisses.

With a small knife, place a small amount of chocolate frosting on the bottoms of two kisses, and “glue” the bottoms together. The points of the kisses now form the “nose” and “tail” of the mouse.

Place a small amount of chocolate frosting on the “tummy” of the mouse, and attach the mouse, tummy-side down, to the white filling of an Oreo.

Select two almond slices (“ears”), and slide them into the frosting between the kisses.

Squeeze out small dots of white writing gel icing to make “eyes” and the “nose.” Now your mouse is ready!

Your mice can be served together on a platter, individually in cupcake paper cups, or as table decorations.

Note: Use red or green colored sugar for Christmas, orange for Thanksgiving, blue for Hanukkah, etc.