Can someone please come over and make me some Chicken Noodle Soup?

I already did the hard part yesterday by slow cooking a whole chicken and reserving the juicy juice...actually, that part wasn't hard at all (why are people afraid of cooking whole chickens? Now I have tons of chicken for dinners, salads, and sandwhiches!)


All I did was rinse the chicken and pat it dry, stuffed it full of apple slices to keep it juicy (even if you're oven roasting it, you want to stuff it with something...like apples, or lemons, or even oranges!) then I roughly cut up a whole spanish onion and put it in the bottom of the crock pot with about 3/4 cup of vegetable stock.




Then I mixed a bunch of spices like sea salt, pepper, chili powder, paprika, fresh basil, and fresh dried rosemary (did you catch that? my rosemary plant died, so now it provides fresh dried rosemary! always look for the silver lining!) and I rubbed that yumminess all over the chicken, plopped it on top of the onions and cooked it on low for 8 hours (and then it stayed in there 'warming' for probably another 2 hours until I got home!).

BEFORE

AFTER


In any case, I already did all that - AND I even separated all the meat from the bones (which was easy too because it literally falls right off) and removed the juicy juice and refrigerated it overnight - so it's all ready to be strained (removing some of the fat in the process!)

All you need to do is come over to my house (wear your winter comfies - I don't even mind if you come over in your pajamas) and make the soup part! I can yell directions from the couch (because I still have my voice!)

Seriously, it'll go something like this:
Chop some onions, smoosh some garlic, chop up some carrots and celery
Put a little bit of canola oil in the bottom of my stock pot, and cook the veg until the onions get all translucent
Add strained stock...if you need more liquid, add some water or there's some vegetable stock in the fridge
Reduce to a simmer.....pick your pasta - I have TONS to choose from - there's Quinoa Penne, Quinoa & Kamut spirals, Udon noodles, hell, there's even a scary variety of rice up in my cupboards - you can use any of that if you want instead (I don't care, I just want the healing powers of the broth!) Then either cook the noodles in the soupiness (you have to make the rice seperately...make sure the rinse the rice first please...maybe you can make some extra for my lunch tomorrow! hahahaha) After the noodles are just about cooked, chop up some of that tender chicken and plop it in for me! And I will LOVE YOU FOREVER! I'll love you even more if you manage to bring me some hot apple cider....and I would be forever grateful if you also ran me a hot bubble bath before you left!

THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

xo
J