Sunday, February 24, 2013

Amazing Potato Soup


This stuff is GOOD! Like, "dang good" good! My sweet friend Kim made this for me for a birthday luncheon and I most certainly ate my fair share of birthday lunch haha! This recipe is ridiculously simple but full of flavor with the added in bacon bits and shredded cheese! So yummy!! (She got this recipe from Paula Dean).

Combine 1 bag frozen hash browns (I used the southern style: cubed) 
2 (14 oz) cans chicken broth 
1 can cream of chicken soup 
1/2 c chopped onion 
1/3 tsp black pepper
Cook in crock pot on low for 5 hours. Stir in 8 oz block of cream cheese, cook 30 minutes, stir occasionally. Serve with bacon bits and shredded cheese in a bread bowl :)

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Best Chicken Noodle Soup Ever!

Ahh... Chicken Noodle Soup. The epitome of comfort food. Unless it's nasty haha... then it can only be equated with desperation i.e. quick and easy and well, I don't make it THAT often, so the kids can't complain too much. Okay, so maybe I'm the only one who HATED chicken noodle soup growing up. Seriously, how exciting can veggies you don't like and dried noodles be in a broth? But then when I was a Junior in High School my friend brought a mug of the most amazingly creamy yummy soup I had ever tasted, and my opinion was forever changed that chicken noodle soup could not only be good, but the amazing comfort food it was supposed to be. I begged my mom to get the recipe from my friend Ashley and her mom (also my friend) Myalin. Thankfully, they were happy to oblige :) Unfortunately, however, it was all guess work... a little of this and a little of that, so I was super excited when I got this recipe from my friend Christy.. the same exact recipe but with measurements!!! I hope you enjoy it as much as we do :)

1 chicken –boiled & boned (or about 3 breasts)
8 cups of water or the stock
1 cup celery
1 cup carrots
1 cup onions
2 cans Cream of Chicken soup
3 bouillon cubes
1 16 oz sour cream
1 pkg Old Fashioned Grandma’s Noodles (in the freezer section)
In a crock pot cook chicken, water/stock, veggies, chicken soup and bouillon cubes. One hour before serving add the noodles and right before you serve add the sour cream.
If cooking on the stove, boil chicken, water, veggies, noodles and bouillon til tender. Then add sour cream and chicken soup.