RECIPE: Simple Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Sometimes you just need a simple chicken noodle soup that reminds you of Grandma's house. Follow me... I'll show you the way to Grandma's.



Start off with GOOD chicken stock, shredded roasted chicken, kosher salt, cracked white pepper, some butter and the best egg noodles around! Believe it or not, this package of egg noodles is frozen. I find them in the frozen foods section near the frozen loaves of bread and other prepared frozen foods, etc.



There are instructions on the back of package to thaw them slightly in the microwave before boiling them in the stock. Hit it some with radio waves (in the microwave for about 45 seconds) and then separate the noodles by dropping them a few at a time into the boiling chicken stock - be careful, they're hot!



Tonight I'm only using half of the package (and will put the other half back in the freezer for another night). I give them a few slices with a knife - so they are a bit smaller and fit nicely on a large soup spoon.





When the noodles are just about done, drop in the chicken and a pat of butter... stir well. Once the chicken is warmed the noodles will typically be done... taste for salt/pepper and add as much or as little as you want.



Enjoy your soup... it's simple. It's fast. It's easy... and you'll be surprised how GOOD this tastes. Takes you right back to Grandma's kitchen table...


I'm simply amazed at how the soup creams up just a tad... the flour from the frozen noodles falls off as the noodles are cooking and thickens the soup just slightly. And the butter? Wow... you can't go wrong with butter giving it all a silky finish.


Tonight we serve up our soup with Red Lobster's Cheddar Biscuits ... excuse me, dinner's ready!



enjoy your time in the kitchen...

RECIPE: Red Lobster's Cheddar Biscuits

Several weeks ago I tried out a new recipe... cheese muffins. And while we liked them (who WOULDN'T like them with 3 cups of cheese in the mix?!) my hubby said "Eating these makes me want the cheesy biscuits from Reb Lobster."

(Silence... )

I ask "Red Lobster has good cheese biscuits?"

(More silence...)

Hubby says "YEAH!" (enter sarcastic tone here)

I say "I'll have to try those. I've never been there."

(LONG, LONG silence...)

Hubby stops what he's doing, turns on his heels and yells in disbelief "You've NEVER eaten at Red Lobster?!" (And because of the high-pitch in his voice I think a glass in the cupboard shattered... )

Long story short... a few days later he took me to dinner. We ate good, including a few baskets of cheesy biscuits. And our wonderful waitress even brought me a bag of biscuits to take home for "dessert"! (Wait a minute - did someone tell her I eat bread for dessert?!)

So a few days later I found the recipe and tried it out for myself. And wow... I mean, WOW! These will become a normal part of our recipe book, with fingerprints smudging the corners of the paper, and, and... I don't care... it's all worth it!

Recipe I found online: cheesy biscuits





Cheddar Biscuits
Recipe from Red Lobster

Ingredients
2 ½ cups Bisquick baking mix
¾ cup cold whole milk
4 tbsp. cold butter (1/2 stick)
¼ tsp. garlic powder
¼ tsp. kosher salt
1 heaping cup of grated cheddar cheese

Brush on top:
2 tbsp. butter, melted
¼ tsp dried parsley flakes
¼ tsp. garlic powder
Pinch salt

Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Combine Bisquick with cold butter in a medium bowl using a pastry cutter or a large fork. Don’t mix too thoroughly, the butter should be about the size of peas. Add cheddar cheese, milk, salt and garlic powder. Mix by hand until combined, but don’t over mix.

Drop approximately ¼ cup portions of the dough onto ungreased cookie sheet using ice cream scoop.

Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until lightly golden brown on top.

When you take the biscuits out of the oven brush on 2 tbsp melted butter in which you've stirred in 1/4 tsp garlic powder, 1/4 teaspoon dried parsley flakes and pinch of salt.



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