#3 Chicken and Almond Soup with Certainly Citron bread.

Looks lovely, doesn't it?
The photo in the Soup Bible looked good. The ingredients were certainly some of our favorites but both soup and bread were really disappointing. Maybe we were expecting too much.Try as I might, I could not get a hint of chicken flavor  even though ½ half a cup of skinned and boned chicken had gone into the mix. The blending of the soup took forever but still came out very gritty tasting which we put down to the ground almonds. So both Mike and I gave this one a 5 out of ten rating. It was edible but just too grainy to be likeable.

As for the bread this had lots of our favorite ingredients as well; both lemon and lime juice and also a fairly large dollop of  orange marmalade in the mix. However the bread did nor rise as it should have done. The flavor was okay but hardly a flavor of citron. The bread too heavy to be associated with the light feeling of oranges and lemons. I suspect the acid in the citron fruits killed the yeast or the liquid was too cold. Oh well, I'll put it down to experience in this case,---- too little!

So this soup meal we will write off,  putting suitable scribbles to that effect in the bible so we remember for next time.

The wine and company was great and provided a lot of deep discussion. !!