JB's Affordable Cooking Tips

Comfort food to me  is a dish that when I smell it, I get excited when I taste it, I feel warm inside not  to mention sleepy and lazy.  One of my favorite comfort foods is chicken noodle soup you know food for the soul especially when I feel like I’m coming down with a cold and today, I have a cold and feel really really bad. 

 So I thought I would just recap on a recipe that I have previously done.  The recipe that I’m about to share with you is a keeper for my family.  So try it out and let me know what you think of  it.

Stock for Soup:

1 fryer cut up

4 quarts water

1 onion diced

2 cloves of garlic minced

3 bay leaves

2 chicken bouillon cubes

salt and pepper

Add all the ingredients to the pot and cook until chicken is done but not stringy about 45 minutes.  Remove chicken and bay leaves and onion.  When chicken is cooled enough for you to handle, get rid of bones, skin, and whatever else you don’t want.

Soup:

2 cups of chopped carrots and celery

2 cans of cream of celery

2 cans of cream of chicken

Season salt

2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary leaves

2 teaspoons chopped parsley

1 bag of noodles

Bring the stock back to a boil and add the carrots and celery.  Let cook for about 14 minutes.  Add the egg noodles and cook for another 8 minutes.  When noodles are done, add chicken, parsley, and rosemary.

  Adjust your seasoning.  In a separate pot, heat up the cream of chicken and cream of celery.  When heated add to the pot of chicken and noodles.   Now, adding the cream of celery and cream of chicken is something I do when I want to have a creamy texture but, if your really not feeling well, you might want to omit it.

  I cook this soup whenever someone in my family is coming down with a cold or just plain doesn’t feel well.  And it always seems to work.  This is truly in my book  some good comfort food.  And remember,

KEEP IT SIMPLE