BRRRR!...Let's keep warm with my mama's chicken soup! :)

I don't know about you (because you never tell me about yourselves), but this Arctic chill that has creeped into my veins is really making me crave soup.
Hot soup.
Specifically my mama's homemade hot chicken soup.
Confession time: I hate canned chicken soup.
There. I've said it. It's out there, spreading it's fairy dust over the universe and turning people against it hopefully.
Okay. There are a couple of canned soups I like a teensy tiny bit (even thought they are not healthy) but I rarely eat them and am not going to plug those companies because they don't care about our health.
Let's get back to my mama's soup.
Or my version of it,
Because my mama uses way more ingredients like chicken necks, chicken hearts, chicken livers, leeks, parsnips, etc.
And normally, I do too.
Except that this time I used exactly what I had in the fridge.

Which was:

--chicken thighs
--green pepper
--red onion
--yellow onion
--carrots
--celery root (whole and chopped)
--celery, including the leaves
--whole peppercorns
--whole allspice
--sea salt
--Maggi seasoning
--secret ingredient (I can't give it up because it wouldn't be special if everyone made it like hers. Sorry)

This is how the soup looks when it is cooked.
How pretty is that?
Never mind pretty. It tastes so good.

What my mama does is she removes all the vegetables from the soup and puts them in a separate bowl because the vegetables sitting in the soup can make it taste sour after a while. When we eat at her house, we ladle the broth into out soup bowls and add the veggies in separately.

The reason she puts the green pepper in is because carrots and parsnips and yellow onion will make the soup taste too sweet. The celery and green pepper counterbalances the sweet taste. Chicken soup should not taste sweet, but if it does, oh well...first world problems, right?

Listen up, y'all. Celery root is a key ingredient in this soup. Make chicken soup without it and I guarantee it won't taste as good. It adds a fresh taste to it that I can't describe. Okay. Yes, I can. It's magic. The taste is magic.

You're welcome.
Now go and make some!