Soop!
Woke up today with a sore throat, so it sure is a good thing I was planning to do the Chicken Noodle Spell today anyway!
Details of the soup spell behind the cut!
I was doing Quick Chicken Noodle Spell, because I had plans today (which I skipped in favor of taking some Tylenol and a nap), so I started with a carton of chicken broth and a chicken breast. I boiled the one in the other, along with some celery ends, the top and bottom of an onion, and some garlic. (I skipped carrots because all I have are baby-cut ones, and I'm not making real stock, so I just put in stuff that was going to go to waste otherwise.)
Once the chicken was cooked through, I fished it out and put it in the fridge to cool, and fished out the vegetable bits to throw away. Then I chopped up the middles of the onion and celery, along with some carrots, and sauteed those for a bit:
Toward the end of the sauteeing, I put in some minced garlic, and then I put everything in the broth and brought it back up to a boil. For noodles I used these:
One of the nice things about central Pennsylvania is that you can buy small-batch, homemade-style noodles pretty easily! There's a brand I used to get that were really thick and chewy; I haven't found those anywhere in ages, but these are OK.
By then the chicken was cool enough to handle, so I chopped that up and put it back in the pot while the noodles were cooking. The broth was still a little bland, so I put in a big spoonful of chicken base, which is this almost-neon-yellow powder, like grandma uses*:
That zipped it right up, and now I have soup! I ate a big bowl already and I have three more to eat later.
(*I usually get Better Than Bouillon, which is a paste in a jar and has a more natural-looking color, but they had this stuff at the same place I bought the noodles and I recognized it from Grandma's house.)
