sick day soup

I'm home sick today. And when I am sick, I like to eat soup. So I made myself some chicken noodle soup.
And if you haven't done this before, her is a super easy, super fast, and super delicious way to do it.

Here's what I used: chicken, tiny egg noodles, corn, peas, carrots and celery. And, of course, chicken broth.

First step, boil some water for the noodles, then get them into it to cook. Do not cook them for as long as the package says. Cut it short. You want your noodles a little underdone for soup, as they will cook in the broth. These noodles said 7 minutes, so I cooked them for 4.

First, chop up a bunch of celery and add it to a pot with a little bit of oil and butter. Cook until tender. This step is really important, as the celery gives a really good flavor, as well as color to the broth.

Once the celery is done, add the other veggies. Feel free to use whatever you want.
 

Then add the broth to the veggies so it can all get warm and happy.

At this point, the noodles should be done, so strain them, and rinse them in cold water to stop the cooking.

Once the noodles are strained, add them to the soup.

Next step, chop up some chicken. To make things easy, I recommend using a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store because it's quick and it's yummy. And I'm sick. So the last thing I want to do is cook chicken.

Add the chicken to the pot, stir, let it all get hot, add some salt & pepper, then you are done!

Now just enjoy!

(I think I'll take a nap now...)

Oh, and PS- if you want to make some more broth, or make your broth from scratch, toss the chicken skin & bones into a pot of water, add some herbs/spices/salt/pepper, bring to a boil, then let it simmer for a while. then strain it, and you are good to go!!!