For the past couple of days I have been wanting to make stock in order to make soup.  Now for me soup is a meal in itself especially when it is homemade and I am quite happy with a bowl of soup on any occasion.  G is a different kettle of fish though.  Like meat pies, he has not been bought up to eat soup.  I nearly therefore fell of my perch this morning when he requested that I make some chicken soup as we had the remains of the chicken from the other night in the fridge and it would have been a pity not to use it up.  He has somewhere down the line been listening to what I have advocated for years.  I am really shocked.  I therefore as requested set too and made some stock first, then going on to make the soup later on.  It worked out well as I had the chicken and various vegetables both fresh and in the freezer that needed using up.  I was going to turn the chicken into a stir fry!  In any event there was enough chicken for the soup ...