Cooking: Hot and Sour Soup

I needed a way to use up the other half of the chicken thighs I had left over from the previous week's Thai chicken curry. Tufty, I thought. What other kind of chicken soup can I make in a crockpot? Mexican? No, that'd just be chili. Then it hit me, the perfect soup when you have a cold or sore throat: hot'n'sour soup!

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