Mrs. Good's Miracle Elixir! Good For What AilsYou! All For Just Pennies!

Blah! We have all been sick with colds for the past few days. The worst part is that the weather decides to be gorgeous as soon as we are all sick and don't feel like doing anything! I wanted to post something fun and exciting but unfortunately we didn't do anything except buy groceries.
No matter though because I can still post about my soup! I couldn't get enough of this stuff....it's magic elixir. I may try to market this stuff...its that good...and I am totally convinced of the healing properties!


I know it's just chicken noodle soup...even if its homemade you can't expect to reinvent the wheel right? Well I didn't but I tweaked it to make it a better, more streamlined, sexier wheel!

Here's what I did...sorry no real recipe...it's chicken soup. I put a chicken carcass with a good amount of meat on it that I had in the freezer for just this occasion. I added an onion that I just cut into chunks and threw in the pot. I put in like 9 peppercorns...that's a lot but I accidentally added too many...oops! I also added some sprigs of rosemary, a bay leaf and some red pepper flakes. I covered the mess with water and put the pot on low heat for like 5 hours. Actually I forgot about the whole thing until an hour before my husband got home...so I had to hurry the last little bit!

I strained the broth from the chunks of chicken and veggies...then added the broth back to the pot. I set the chicken aside to cool a little so I could remove the meat. Meanwhile I added carrots and onions (sorry I was out of celery.) I removed the meat and threw it in the pot.

This is where it gets interesting. I got a wild hair up my ass and threw in some lemon zest and juice from a lemon. I was worried about the taste being weird but I thought the citrus would cure my ailing body. Then I added thyme, chopped rosemary and a little bit of cayenne pepper (that will clear the sinuses!) I took 5 garlic clove and thinly sliced them and put them in the soup. Then I added linguine noodles...which are now my favorite "go to" pasta shape because I can use them in almost every dish I make...but that's another blog. Lastly, of course, salt and pepper.

The end result was amazing! It tastes like my roasted chicken...but its all just soupy goodness. The lemon I was worried about actually was the best part. I just added a small amount of zest since it's powerful stuff, I wouldn't add a lot. I really did feel like a miracle cure!

In all it was a boring weekend but if it ends with an amazing soup how bad could it be?