In need of some good chicken soup loving

Chicken Vegetable Soup with Meatballs
Originally uploaded by metaphoric.

While most of the food on my Flickr pages are good looking, photo quality stuff, thanks to eating out - this is the reality of what I eat at home when I'm sniffly and in need of some good cheering up and hot clear chicken broth.

So here it is, one of the heart-warming heartland favourites: chicken vegetable soup with meatballs, a variant of the yummy soup courtesy of enuwy who made some last week in London.

Ingredients:
500 ml chicken stock
200g minced pork
3 small carrots
1/4 brocolli floret
2 slices of ginger (for colds)
A handful of barley (good for winter soups apparently)

Method:
Bring chicken stock, ginger and barley to a boil. In the meantime, chop up carrots and brocolli and marinade minced pork with pepper and soy sauce.

Once the broth has come to a boil, add in carrots, bring to a boil and add brocolli. Lastly make meatballs out of the minced pork mixture and drop them into the fast boiling soup. Bring to an active boil and serve 5 minutes later.

This is so completely reassuring. There's really nothing which I've tried that is better for a cold than chicken soup with ginger slices. Whoever found that out must be some kind of genius because it is honestly, completely true.

if you don't have much of an appetite because you can't smell anything thanks to a blocked nose, but need enough nutrition to get you past your lousy, sniffly days, try this soup.