Jou's Kantan Cooking: Hearty Chicken Noodle Soup
I have a cold and I wanted chicken noodle soup, danggit. And living in Japan has got me used to the idea of cooking everything from scratch instead of getting it in a can. Plus, a can means a can I have to throw away, and that means figuring out what random day out of the month is can day for garbage. And that's a pain.
So instead, I bought ingredients on my way home Friday, and it has been Soup Weekend. :D
Ingredients:
Chicken (preferable pre-sliced. I went that route because a) lazy b) only one cutting board and I use it for veggies)
Chicken consomme (2 or 3 cubes)
2 smalliish to mid-sized potatoes
2 smallish carrots
1/2 an onion
1 or 2 stalks of asparagus
OPTIONAL: pasta (or rice, whichever floats your boat)
water
Get a good-sized pot.
Fill it with water.
Toss in the chicken.
Wander off and watch something on youtube.
Come back, wash the potatoes, and slice them into 1-2 centimeter sized cubes. DO NOT PEEL THEM.
Peel and chop up the carrots to about the same size as the potatoes.
Toss them into the water (cussing when you splash yourself optional)
Add 2 blocks of consomme. Turn heat down and put a lid on the pot.
Wander off to watch more stuff on youtube. Like a couple clip of a Let's Play of Vagrant Story.
Wander back, check to see that the potato is cooked.
Get asparagus and chop into pieces. Add.
Chop up onion and add.
Toss in another block of consomme and put the lid back on the pot.
Wander off and watch another Let's Play clip.
Come back, add a handful of whatever kind of pasta you like. I added "salad macaroni," which was tri-color macaroni (yay, extra veggies and flavors!).
Watch more youtube--a ten minute clip is good.
Come back, turn off heat, and voila! Because it's boiled for so long, the potato really thickens the soup, and there are tasty bits of peel floating around.
So instead, I bought ingredients on my way home Friday, and it has been Soup Weekend. :D
Ingredients:
Chicken (preferable pre-sliced. I went that route because a) lazy b) only one cutting board and I use it for veggies)
Chicken consomme (2 or 3 cubes)
2 smalliish to mid-sized potatoes
2 smallish carrots
1/2 an onion
1 or 2 stalks of asparagus
OPTIONAL: pasta (or rice, whichever floats your boat)
water
Get a good-sized pot.
Fill it with water.
Toss in the chicken.
Wander off and watch something on youtube.
Come back, wash the potatoes, and slice them into 1-2 centimeter sized cubes. DO NOT PEEL THEM.
Peel and chop up the carrots to about the same size as the potatoes.
Toss them into the water (cussing when you splash yourself optional)
Add 2 blocks of consomme. Turn heat down and put a lid on the pot.
Wander off to watch more stuff on youtube. Like a couple clip of a Let's Play of Vagrant Story.
Wander back, check to see that the potato is cooked.
Get asparagus and chop into pieces. Add.
Chop up onion and add.
Toss in another block of consomme and put the lid back on the pot.
Wander off and watch another Let's Play clip.
Come back, add a handful of whatever kind of pasta you like. I added "salad macaroni," which was tri-color macaroni (yay, extra veggies and flavors!).
Watch more youtube--a ten minute clip is good.
Come back, turn off heat, and voila! Because it's boiled for so long, the potato really thickens the soup, and there are tasty bits of peel floating around.