Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I am bad at keeping secrets / my secret chicken noodle soup recipe

I just thought of this tonight, because I thought I might be getting sick, and so I cooked it, and it was so good it ought to be a secret. But I will share it with you.

-Boil some water and put some noodles in it (thick noodles, like those egg noodles that the Amish make, or at least fettuccini, but broken into short lengths)
-Cut up a chicken breast and put lots of pepper and some salt on it
-Cut up some garlic
-Heat up some olive oil in a pan and then fry the garlic and chicken in there until the chicken is cooked
-Take out those noodles before they cook all the way and strain them, then maybe put them back in the pot with a pad of butter and put some pepper in there
-Put some chicken or turkey broth (whichever was on sale when you bought it) in with the chicken, and also some frozen spinach.
-When the spinach starts getting unfrozen, add the Secret Ingredient: a can of Campbell's Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup (don't tell anybody; it is a secret)
-Heat that up so it simmers, and also put some spices in there (the ones you have that smell like they would taste good)
-Pour the chicken pan into the noodle pot, and put some more broth in there. Also probably some more spices. Heat it up and let it simmer a while.
-Eat a bowl of this delicious soup.
-Probably eat another bowl.
-Don't gorge yourself, though, you don't ever want to eat that much soup, ever. Save the rest. Put it in an appropriate container and hide it behind some other stuff in the refrigerator so that you forget it is in there. Then a few days later accidentally find it when you were just staring in the refrigerator wondering what to eat tonight.* Then eat the rest; it will probably be better than it was the first time.

* This is known as the "ace in the hole" technique, and also works well with cans of Stag beer (Hint-- put it behind the mustard and soy sauce and things like that that you keep in the refrigerator door, then amaze your friends when they say you are out of beer)

1 comment:

becky said...

LOL

this is so hilarious. I love your blog!