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Dec 6 2012
chicken noodle soup

Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

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Chicken noodle soup is a classic. Soup on a cold winter day or when I’m sick is very comforting to me. I love it for lunch and dinner. I just love it. I had almost everything I needed in the apartment to make it so I decided I needed to make it. I hope others will enjoy my version of this classic. I didn’t stray too far from the original. I just used the leftover cooked chicken I had instead of poaching it. Rotisserie chicken would be really tasty in this soup as well.

This is what I did.

Ingredients:

  • ~10 baby carrots chopped
  • ~3 green onions chopped
  • 2 large celery stalks chopped
  • 2 massive basil leaves, or 4 regular size ones
  • 1/4 onion chopped, I used a red onion because that’s what I had in my fridge
  • 2.5 cups of cooked chopped chicken
  • 2 cups uncooked noodles
  • 8 cups chicken broth
  • garlic powder
  • celery salt
  • oregano
  • black pepper
  • italian seasoning

Directions:

  1. In a large pot bring broth to a boil
  2. place noodles in broth and cook noodles
  3. In a skillet, medium-high heat, place a little oil and veggies and sauté till just tender
  4. Reduce heat to simmer on noodles and add veggies and chicken
  5. season to taste
  6. simmer ~ 30 minutes and stir occasionally
  7. Enjoy your chicken noodle soup!
chicken noodle soup

simmer and serve

Nov 25 2012
cheese

Chili Recipe

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We stayed home for Thanksgiving. It was nice weekend just the three of us and in the tradition of Thanksgiving, we needed to make something that would give us a lot of leftovers. I didn’t really want to tackle a turkey again so we went with chili. I say we because Joshua helped A LOT with this since I have never made chili before and we weren’t using a recipe. It turned out delicious! Here is our chili recipe.

Heres what we used:

  • 2 28oz cans of crushed tomatoes
  • 2 little cans of tomato paste
  •  1lbs. ground sirlion
  • 1lbs. ground mild italian sausage
  • 1/2 package of bacon
  • 2 poblano peppers, chopped
  • 1 red bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 can black beans, drained
  • 1 medium yellow onion, chopped
  • 1/4 of a garlic bulb chopped
  • 4 large basil leaves chopped
  • a lot of chili powder
  • a lot of oregano
  • black pepper
  • salt
  • powered mustard
  • celery salt
  • tarragon
  • some beer
  • cheese
  1.  put crushed tomatoes and tomato paste in a big pot, and put it on the stove to simmer
  2. I then cooked the meat in a skillet, I seasoned the sirloin with red and black pepper, salt and chili powder while it browned, then I cooked the sausage, followed with the bacon, and then put it all in the pot with the crushed tomatoes
  3. leaving a little bit of the bacon grease in the pan, I sautéed the peppers, onions, and garlic a little bit to get them to soften and sweeten just a bit but still leaving them with a crunch to them, and put it all in the pan
  4. add the basil to the chili and stir to combine it all
  5. add some beer, we used an ale, probably about 6oz, but it’s really up to the person making it, but too much, will make it runny
  6. then it was time to season the chili, which consisted of throwing a lot of spices in it and tasting it until we liked it
  7. we left it to simmer, covered, for a few hours, stirring occasionally
  8. when it was time to eat, we topped it with some shredded colby jack, but cheddar would be good on it too
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Chili!

It ended up having just a little bit of a kick to it, well in my opinion it did, but I don’t handle spicy food too well, but it was amazing! It was nice to eat chili on this chilly weekend. 🙂 It’s thick enough to make a chili dog, or what I did when it got a bit too spicy for me, scoop a cracker into it and eat it that way.
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Definitely had enough leftovers to last and some to even freeze for other chilly winter days!