The next day, I took the hardly touched chicken and I cooked it down into soup. I added more herbs and spices and home made noodles. This is my first attempt at noodles and yes, I had You Tube and Gordon Ramsay's help. My noodles were perfect. The soup was so good I ate an entire bowl. I wanted more, but, as you know, I am still just getting used to real food, so I couldn't do it. But, let me tell you, it was fucking good. Lis looked at it and said, 'Yuk, I am NOT eating that'. I said, but, you love chicken noodle soup! She said, "Yeah, the real kind, THIS kind." She was holding up a can of Campbells. She insisted on making it. So, there it is, right by my home made soup. Nice, huu?
Kids eat crap. If kids grow up half the time eating crap, that's all they want. She's too big and I'm too old and tired to fight over it. Eat the crap. Who cares. The Possums and Racoons loved my leftovers. At least someone appreciates my efforts.
And yeah, my stove got dirty. I missed the spoon rest somehow. Deal with it. If you can handle it, come on over. I'm cooking a turkey on Thursday. It's thawing now. I'm cooking the whole dinner for the family. My mother is half pissed, half relieved. She always thinks she has to do it because I don't cook. I can cook a damn turkey and I don't need You Tube for it. I won the turkey in a drawing. Pretty cool, huu? So, she has to let ME cook it this year. I still hate this holiday. But, I like turkey.
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Your soup looks hearty ad delicious!
Boy do I know where you're coming from with the homemade vs. canned/boxed. Then all the other I don't like that Mom! Stuff. Especially little girl, "it's too saucy, it's too cheesy, it hurts my tongue..." and my favorite from her "I can't eat that, it sucks all the fun out of me!"
Somedays it's a eat whatever you want night and leave me alone. Im old and tired.
Im sure your turkey will be beautiful. I do pies and several sides and an appetizer. We all help. It's one of those times that a big family comes in handy. Drinking helps too.
Connie, the kid kills me watching her eat junk, but, she seems healthy. They almost all do it. School lunch is junk. Oh well.
PS. I'm so glad she's old enough to fix her own junk.
I live on leftovers cause my kid won't eat them more than once, and if I have to cook, I'm making a lot. I made potato soup with red lentils and Chinese fish stock. Dr Oz said yesterday that the red lentils are magical beans. Full of iron, protein and fiber. This soup is delicious, I had 2 bowls today already, and yes the lentils are magical! I'm going to start putting them in everything.
I think we're having seafood for thanksgiving, Syd doesn't like turkey, so I'm not getting stuck with a whole turkey.
Shelly
O my stars - your soup looks fab. I am actually drooling a little because I can only imagine the taste and savory aroma. That is comfort food. Wish you were my neighbor; you cook - I can bake.
I think it's frightening the way kids eat today. Look at what's happening to adults that have been doing it for say the past 30 years now...obesity, diabetes, clogged arteries, cancers, etc...like never before. At that rate those kids will be having serious health issues before they reach their 30's and will be dead before they reach 50. It's really scary.
Yep. My son wants Top Ramen, and boxed mac and cheese. Every once in awhile he starts a healthy kick and brings home good stuff, but not usually.
Sounds like you made a great dinner. The soup looks amazing. You made your own noodles? I think there's nothing you can't do. The only noodles I ever make is spatzele, and I don't make them often.
I totally agree with the comfort food comment. Too bad that Lissa isn't ready for that yet. It's just how kids are.
When my son was in grade school, he wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for his lunch, every single day. I offered him different foods, but he only wanted that, so I gave up. Then, one day, he came home from school irritated, and said "why do you always make me have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch??".
I have no explanation for why they like crap, and why they make no sense, but I feel your pain.
Christina
There is nothing better than homemade chicken or turkey soup!! But I didn't appreciate that until I was older, and now I think canned soup is nasty. Especially that red-grey goopy mess that Campbell's calls vegetable soup.
I'm going away for a few days to a relative's house but I'd rather stay home. I bought a turkey breast only for later and will make sandwiches. Love them. Kids eat what kids eat; they'll be gourmet cooks later on.
Everybody told me with justification that I couldn't cook until one year there was nobody but me left to do the turkey. Wow, piece of cake, ez, peezee. No problem at all.
I think my distant family that I will be visiting is having pot roast for dinner. Sounds fine to me. But I hate people trying to make me eat much. I just can't. A little here and there is fine.
Shelly, I LOVE lentils and I have bags and bags in storage..so that will be my next soup. There's a big snow a comin' and that means hot soup!
Thank you MaryX2, I wish you were my neighbor too because you are the fab-est person I know. I have some things for you, odd things, I just haven't mailed em yet. I will try and get that done.
Christina that was hilarious, I actually lol'd. Kids are so weird.
Susan, I agree, though I confess I like their veg soup, but only the vegetarian version. With buttered bread to dip. The other is AWFUL.
Border, you have fun and stay safe. Yep, I agree, cooking a bird is so easy peasy.
My kids ate what we had. Never were choosy. But now my adult son wont eat onions or tomatoes. NOW. When tomato is plural, you add the 'e", right? LOL. Your noodles look yummy and be glad you don't have a ceramic cook top. Its a hella bitch to keep clean. I literally hate its guts. I can get it like new. But it takes no time for it to be back like it was. It's a back breaker. I think the secret is to use only brand new pans with no cooking stains on them yet. And I totally bought a disposable cake pan for my cake I'm baking for tomorrow. I have tons of real sheet cake pans. But you use them once and they look awful. I am too embarrassed to repeat a pan when others are eating from it. & I'm tired of always running out and buying a new pan. Does this happen to anybody else? And why? Why cant a cake pan stay like new? Even steel wool never gets it back right. I buy middle of the road pans, about $12-$15. Maybe I need an expensive one? It's a real problem. Stained pans! help!
Rox
PS: I've even used oven cleaner on them. Still has stains. Not as bad, but not something I want to serve from.
Awwww, you are a peach. I have some things for you, too. I will try and get them mailed out after Tday and before Xmas. xo
Rox, when I moved, I left some of my pans for my son to use. They were good quality pans the cafeteria ladies used to sell for fund raiser. Since then, I have been watching on ebay for the heavy duty pans to come up. I found a used one and I don't know what they used to clean it, but it was like new. You could see the scratches in it so you could tell someone used it a lot. If anyone knows what they use, maybe they can let us know. I thought about contacting the seller but I don't remember who it was.
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