mama’s homemade chicken noodle soup

Making soup from scratch can take some time (well worth it I might add,) However, when you are dealing with a sick family nothing beats mama’s chicken noodle soup.

Ingredients:

  * 1 whole chicken (hen if you can find it fryer if not)
  * 3 garlic cloves smashed, diced crushed (whatever is easiest)
  * 6 large carrots peeled and diced (save 1/2 for later)
  * 3 large celery stalks diced (including the leaves)
  * 3 dashes of parsley or 1/2 teaspoon of fresh parsley chopped
  * 2 bay leaves
  * 1 large onion
  * salt and pepper to taste
  * 1 pk egg noodles
  * 1 pk (small - 16oz) frozen peas

Directions

In a large stock pot add your chicken (don’t forget to remove the insides) and cover w/water. Then add garlic, carrots (remember to save 1/2 for later,) celery, bay leaves, onion and parsley. Bring to a boil and cover and simmer for about 2 hours - (Your looking for the chicken to fall off the bone.) Once finished remove the chicken and set aside. Strain the chicken broth (this is liquid gold) and throw away the veggies. Put the chicken broth in the fridge to cool -Remove the bones and skin from the chicken and cut (or tear) into bite size pieces. Once your broth has cooled - remove it from the fridge and skim the fat off the top and throw it away (if only throwing away fat was always this easy.) Put the broth back into your cooking pot, add the chicken (i normally set aside some of chicken, for chicken salad sandwiches later on,) peas, carrots and noodles. Cook until noodles are done - salt and pepper to taste and enjoy.