Chicken and Rice Soup: Just Add Chicken and Rice

Remember the children's story about Stone Soup? To make the soup the stranger said all he need was a stone. So the villagers brought the man a stone and he put it in the pot. Then he said he just needed a little onion to go with it. And then a few carrots would be good. And could someone come up with a few potatoes? Soon the stranger had prepared a delicious soup. Wasn't that clever!

So now it seems that's all you need to do to make a delicious soup out of a can. My brother's girlfriend was heating up some chicken and rice soup to go with grilled cheese sandwiches. She said that the chicken in it was pretty small and not much of it; they should get some of those cans of chicken to keep handy so they could add it to soups. And she mentioned that she had put some of the left-over rice that I had made the day before into the soup. Then she laughed, "It's getting pretty bad when you have to add chicken and rice to chicken and rice soup."