If my USB cord connection for my camera worked, I'd have a lovely picture of homemade chicken noodle soup. You'll just have to do with my lovely harvest of Music Garlic last summer. We are using the last bulb now. Guess who forgot to plant garlic last fall? Big mistake. It has been excellent.
Here's a link to the buttermilk biscuits I made to go with the soup. Sassy Priscilla, why do you accidentally knock lamps and small children over with your hips? Ha! In attempt to get in control of my weight I only ate 2 biscuits.
I got the chicken soup stock recipe from Martha Stewart's January issue. I never knew it was so easy. However, with the homemade noodles, biscuits, and broth, be prepared to spend about 2 hours in the kitchen. That is OK because you can get your dishes put away, clean the next load and dream about your garden, and kick yourself for forgetting to plant garlic.
The noodle recipe is from AllRecipes. I don't know how to make vegetable stock yet. I bet Scott does. Scott and his family are vegetarians and he always has great green tips on his website. He has helped inspire me to be more conscious of my eating. It probably doesn't sound that way with my biscuit recipe and animal eating. But I've made quite an effort to think about what goes in our bodies and have eliminated corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oils. We use BPA-free storage containers and I have found strained tomatoes in glass. I'm doing my best within our budget to buy organic. Aidan and I have always been good fruit and vegetable eaters and we are now working on Jeff.
I'm going to be working on getting rid of soy next. When Aidan was an infant, he was allergic to dairy so I had to cut dairy and soy out of my diet for about a year because I was breastfeeding. I dropped a lot of weight. It could have been the dairy/soy elimination, it could have been the extra calories needed for breastfeeding, it could have been the stress of 3 heart surgeries for Aidan in 6 months. I'm guessing a combination. I gained all the weight back and then some and I wasn't a waif to begin with. So a change needs to happen.
Oh shoot, where was I? Noodles. Soup base. These noodles will be great in your favorite soup base - be it animal stock or vegetable. Add your favorite soup vegetables, use your favorite seasoning. I've just included our favorites and the template for how to make everything. Don't mess with the chicken, water or salt. Play around with any of the other ingredients.
This makes enough soup to feed us 3, a couple lunches for me and some to freeze. Plus, you will have leftover chicken for another meal. Speaking of that, does anyone have a good recipe for leftover dark meat chicken?
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