Daily Archives: January 4, 2015
Soup’s On . . .
Jan and I did pretty much nothing this morning, just enjoyed the bright sunshine for the first time in more than a week. Mister even went outside for a while, but despite the sun, it never got out of the 40’s and was windy enough so that he came back in after just a few minutes.
About 1pm I got out the slow cooker and started putting together a batch of our chicken vegetable soup. One thing about our soup is that it’s never the same twice. We always start with chicken broth and poached chicken breasts, but after that it’s more just what we have in the pantry and the freezer
At some point we buy a big package of boneless chicken breasts and several cartons of chicken broth. At home we put all the chicken breasts in the slow cooker, add the chicken broth, add seasonings, and then poach the chicken breasts for a few hours.
Then we vacuum-seal the chicken, two breasts to a package, and put them in the freezer. Since we always use liners in the slow cooker, it’s then easy to take the broth and freeze it for later also. And we’ll be doing this again soon since today’s batch used our last package of chicken.
So after the broth is in the slow cooker, it’s time to get creative. I started with a can of Rotel Hot Diced Tomatoes with Habaneros, a can of Whole Kernel Corn, a can of Red Kidney Beans, and a can of Black Beans and set the cooker on High for a couple of hours.
At this point I took the chicken breasts which had been thawing in the fridge and shredded them into the soup. Then about 30 minutes later I added half a bag of pasta twirls to the soup to cook. About 10 minutes before we were ready to eat, I put a bag of steam-in-the-bag veggies in the microwave, and when they were done, they went in the pot too.
To go with our meal, I heated up a couple of the free rolls we got from Golden Corral last night. And this was the result.
Really, really good. And enough left over so that we can add another couple of cans of stuff, and maybe some more chicken broth, and we’re good to go all over again. Which will probably be Wednesday night after we get back to the Colorado River Thousand Trails.
Tomorrow we’re going to take down to Fry’s Electronics for a few things, and then eat at Grimaldi’s Pizzeria on the way home.
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Thought for the Day:
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, another good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” – George Burns
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