Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

This was hands down my most favorite meal as a kid.

homemade chicken noodle soup

Now it's my kids' most requested meal at our house.

Even in the heat of summer, they request it. 

But today with the fresh blanket of snow, it seemed even more fitting.

I remember my Mom making this when I was little and every time I ate it I got the hiccups.
I realize now it was probably because I was eating it WAY too fast!!

When my friend, Lisa and I used to play in my play kitchen we would put warm water in my "soup kettle" and "cook" homemade chicken noodle soup on my stove.
 It was the one meal we always made.

I have known how to make this as long as I can remember. It's really not hard....

But I guess if you didn't grow up eating it, you wouldn't know how?

I have passed this "recipe" on to many friends and family over the years.  

My kids all know how to make it.

I cannot say I really have a "recipe" though. But I am going to do my best to walk you through it.

on a snowy day...or any 'ol day

the audience I get whenever I de-bone a chicken ... mooching!

ah-maz-ing!

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

1 whole chicken

1 onion, chopped

Celery, diced

Carrots, sliced

1- 32 oz chicken broth

2 Tablespoons chicken bouillon

salt and pepper

water

wide egg noodles, cooked and rinsed

Place chicken, whole, into your soup pot.  Add veggies. I cut my onion up fairly large, and do the same for my celery and carrots. We love our veggies over here!

I put A LOT of celery in my soup, because I love it! If I had to guess, I would say use about 5-6 stalks. When I am in a rush I buy the carrot chips and just give them a quick chop.  I use the whole bag.  We have a big family though, and usually we eat it, I put some in the fridge and then have some for the freezer to pull out in a pinch.

Salt and pepper generously.

Add chicken broth, bouillon, and fill pot to the top with water.  Cover and cook until chicken is done.

Depending on the size of your chicken, I find it's done in about an hour or a little more.

Remove chicken and de-bone, remove skin and dice up meat.

Return to pan.

I bounce back and forth between the dry wide egg noodles and the Reames frozen ones.
My kids are sort of "split" on which they prefer.

Can't make everyone happy at once, all of the time, right?

Cook the egg noodles until they are done, and drain and rinse them.

Add them to the soup and Volia! You are done!

Feel free to add more bouillon if you feel the need.  I swear, the broth is better some times than others.
I always blame the chicken! ;)

The noodles will soak up the broth as it sits.  I always add some more chicken broth to the left overs.
We love the broth.

If you are watching your fat intake, I would recommend making this a day ahead and putting it into the fridge.  The grease from the chicken will go to the top and harden, and  

can be removed.

My kids LOVE this stuff. My oldest daughter will eat it for breakfast when she knows it's here!

I can tell you that "uncool" fact about my teenager, because as she says... "my friends don't read that stuff anyway!" Someday they might...beware, Kenzie!!