COERNI

Now, I don't know about you, but in my book nothing combats nasty weather and cooties better than a steaming hot bowl of homemade chicken soup. This is one of those recipes you don't want to get into, if you don't have at least a couple of hours at home, but it does mostly cook away by itself, so there's plenty of time to get caught up on laundry, e-mails or just snuggle up with the munchkins and watch a movie. You will need: 1 chicken (cut up or whole) 2 small or 1 large onion 4 garlic cloves 1 lb carrots 1 bunch of celery 1 lemon 2 bay leaves salt & pepper water For the broth: Put your chicken, the onion (peeled & halved), the garlic (peeled), about 4 of the carrots (peeled & cut in half), about 4 stalks of celery (rinsed & cut in half), the lemon (rinsed & cut in half), the bay leaves and some salt and pepper in a large stock pot and cover with about 2 quarts of cold water. Bring this to a slow boil, turn down to low, cover and simmer...

As I had been complaining about all of the additives in most ice creams, a 'sweet' friend of mine presented me with an ice cream maker at my last birthday. This one of the old fashion variety requires ice and rock salt, but no hand cranking. While playing around with ideas, we came up with this recipe, which according to my daughter makes the best ice cream EVER (I love it, too). You will need: 1-1/2 pounds frozen strawberries 2 cups heavy cream 1-6 oz. container vanilla yogurt 1 cup sugar juice of 1 lemon Put all of the ingredients into a blender or food processor and hit liquefy or pulse until smooth. Then pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and process until ready. The way you get from A to B will obviously depend on the type of machine you're using. In the case of my Ice cream maker we end up with a smooth semi frozen mass, which requires further freezing for a few hours, but is so worth the wait. You can also try to freeze the mixture you get from the ble...