Hello.
I know, I know. It's been a while. I've been busy. Not really an excuse, but it's true. Busy and lazy don't go well together.
A few things I've been wanting to put up here...
I made a chicken and noodle soup. J made the homemade noodles with Granny H's secret family recipe, we all have them, so I won't share this one (If you don't have one, call your Grandma/Mom/Aunt, I'm sure they'd be happy to share the tradition with you! If they won't, then I guess I could share ours...or you can buy the frozen noodles as well.
Since homemade noodles is a whole day affair, I decided to make the chicken one as well. I bought canned chicken broth (no sodium, msg blah blah blah) and put it in a pot then simmered a couple of boneless chicken breasts in it for several hours. At some point, once the chicken was all white, I would pull out the chunks and shred it, so it wasn't such a big piece of chicken. I added in some chopped celery and carrots, some thyme...(that's right, I bought some!), parsley, sage and a bay leaf and just continued to let it simmer. it smelled amazing, and tasted about the same.
Once the noodles were sufficiently dry and the chicken soup tasted like I thought it should, I fished out the bay leaf and most of the veggies (I wanted the flavor of the veggies in the broth but we didn't want to eat them in the soup) and brought it to a rolling boil, then dumped in the noodles and served them over mashed potatoes. I had a little bit too much broth for what we were wanting but it was delicious and definitely warmed the bellies. E ate them like crazy as well, and we had plenty for leftovers for our lunches the next day.
I also tried to make beef stroganoff recently. I browned a pound of ground beef, then mixed in a can of cream of mushroom soup. I also added in some garlic powder and parsely and then added in my boiled egg noodles (Not the homemade style, the "wide egg noodles" you purchase in the pasta aisle.) Once it was all mixed, I then added in about 1/2 cup of sour cream and mixed. It was just ok, I think next time I will up the garlic powder and add some whole mushrooms and maybe some onion.
The next thing I am most excited about cooking is our Thanksgiving dinner. I love making big family dinners and having people over for the meal, this year we will be hosting a friend or two for dinner and I plan on cooking Turkey, Stuffing, Rolls, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, some Cranberry sauce (ok that will be from a can) and of course, Green bean casserole and scalloped corn.
Do you have any staples that you eat for thanks giving every year?
