No Recipe Fly by the Seat of Your Pants Chicken Noodle Soup

Not much time to chat, so here we go...

1. Find a sale on chicken and buy 3 pounds with no idea what you're going to do with it.
2. Come home.... What are we gonna do with all this chicken?

Start over!

Ok, here it is, for real.

No Recipe Fly by the Seat of Your Pants Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients
about 1 lb chicken breast
salt and pepper and italian seasoning
carrots, celery, onions
frozen egg noodles or gnocchi or try something else, anything could work
chicken stock - 8 cups or 2 cartons

Instructions
1. Cook approximately 1 lb of chicken on the stove in a pot at a VERY low temperature (like, 3 out of 10). While it's cooking, dump some seasonings on it, like salt and pepper and Italian seasoning mix. Try to avoid the Pepper Incident where the stopper falls out of the bottom of the shaker and you accidentally dump about 1/4 cup of pepper onto the chicken.

2. Recruit some Kid or Husband to chop up the carrots, celery and onions. Throw out the onions when Husband pulls out the bag of onions and they're all fuzzy and blue. Skip the celery because you forgot you don't have any and who likes celery anyway? Stick to just the carrots, and try not to cringe while Kid is chopping and you're a paranoid Mom who's afraid someone's going to lose a fingertip.

3. Take the cooked chicken off the stove and shred with a fork while Kid dumps the carrots into the pot to start cooking, now the heat should be set to medium/high. Keep shredding the chicken. This feels like it takes forever. Keep cooking the carrots, till they're kinda soft.

4. Dump in the 2 cartons of chicken broth (8 cups) and turn up the pot to the hottest setting, dump in the chicken and bring the whole thing to a boil. Taste it a couple times, decide the Pepper Incident wasn't really so bad and it needs more pepper. Now. Dump in the frozen egg noodles. Now. Be really patient because they're supposed to simmer for 20 minutes and it's getting late and you just want to get everybody fed and off to bed but sit down and write a blog post about your recipe while you so very patiently wait for those noodles to cook and THEN.

Set the table, gather round, tell me about your day, eat some soup!
We enjoyed this with some toasted sliced baguettes, thanks David :)

Why we like it
Warm, soupy, comfortable, three of us liked it, one of us was ok with it and the last one of us was too full from snacks to give the soup a try.

  

PS While all of that other stuff is happening, put the other 2 pounds of chicken into the oven to cook for whatever you're gonna make tomorrow. Chicken Salad. Chicken Tacos. It's the Week of Chicken, people!