My Favorite Dinner (Chicken Noodle Soup)

How do you go wrong with chicken noodle soup? You don't, and I think that's kind of the point. Chicken Noodle Soup can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. Personally I prefer the easy version. My easy version that is. I use the word 'easy' loosely. I use home made chicken broth and home made egg noodles. Doesn't sound as easy anymore does it? Trust me it still is. I usually have jars of home made broth already ready to go and egg noodles are super simple.

I have a separate post in here on how to make chicken broth at home if you want to give it a try (you will not have regrets if you do). If not, or until you do, there's nothing wrong with using other types of chicken broth or stock. I will advise though to add some herbs or spices to your broth. I'll list my suggestions in the recipe as optional. I don't simply because my home made broth has all those things in it already.

I've also got a post on how to make egg noodles at home. If you decide not to go that route, trust me, its chicken noodle soup, its still going to be amazing! My husband has a very particular brand of egg noodles you get in the freezer isle that is his favorite. I haven't been able to find these noodles at every location we've lived in. To be quite frank, I can't even remember what they're called or which store was most inclined to carry them, but I could recognize the package if I saw it! There have been plenty of times before I started making noodles where I couldn't find my husbands favorite so I used pasta noodles. My children however, are far less picky, as long as there are plenty of noodles in the bowl they are happy campers.

The chicken. The star of the dish! I buy a rotisserie chicken from the store. That's the real secret to making chicken noodle soup super easy. The hardest part is tearing everything off the bone. Now making sure your oldest kid doesn't eat all the chicken as it comes off the bone is an entirely different level of difficulty.

I want to talk about taking the chicken off the bone for a second here. I save the bones, the skin, and everything else I've decided I don't like the look of and that's what I use to make my broth with. I wanted to talk about this because I know there have to be people out there like me who may be squeamish and maybe that's not even the correct word. When I take apart a chicken I find things like tendons or blood vessels and I think about how I don't want to put that in my soup because I don't like the way it looks and I don't wana eat it. I don't care if you judge me I said what I said. I put those things in the bowl with the bones for broth. I find no shame it it because I am still using them, but I don't have to think about eating them. Alright moving on!

No matter how easy you decide to make your soup, you still gotta chop up the vegetables. Carrots, onions, celery. Maybe some garlic.