I hope everyone was able to recover from Halloween. I apparently have not yet.
I am so far behind in everything, and I am suffering from a cold. (This is where you feel sorry for me and give me condolences)
My dear husband tried to let me sleep in on Sunday (you know, little kids just don’t appreciate day light savings time), and he tried to let me take a nap to rest up. But the kids had different plans.
How can I sleep when you have little hands reaching up and saying “Mama” or when your three-year old says “but I wuv you, and would be sad if you go back to sweep”
Yep my kids are very manipulative.
But hey, I still got this week’s menu planned.
I have never seen a kid who loves food as much as this one. Yes, he is eating popcorn. It not, ‘how can I let him?’ it’s, ‘how can I stop him?’
My husband asked me to make a pot of chicken noodle soup, so we can freeze a bunch of it.
I got this recipe from my mom, and have been making it for years. She got the recipe from her Grandmother and had been making it for decades.
But let’s be honest, it is nothing fancy, so I am sure your grandmother had the same recipe.
I love this recipe simply for the noodles.
Seriously. Look at those noodles. Don’t you just want to eat them up right now? So doughy and creamy.
When I first made these I rolled them out and cut them with a knife like my mom did. However they were as wide as the spoon I was supposed to eat them with.
I had the pasta attachment for my Kitchen Aid mixer, so the next time I made the soup I remembered that I had it and used it.
That time the noodles were too long….
I have since perfected my use of my pasta roller/cutter.
Chicken Noodle Soup
1 whole fryer chicken
2-3 32oz boxes of chicken broth
water
1 onion, chopped
3 cups flour
6 tbsp milk (preferably whole or half & half)
1 1/2 tsp salt
3 eggs
Wash chicken and place in a large stock pot with chopped onion. Dump in chicken broth, add water until you get desired amount of broth. Make sure the chicken is covered and remember the noodles will soak up some liquid. If you have added a lot of water, more than a quart or so, you can add a couple of chicken bouillon cubes so as to not dilute the flavor.
If you don’t want to use chick broth, you can just use water and bouillon cubes; one cube per quart. Don’t want to use bouillon because of sodium? You can find a recipe here for a broth mix.
Bring to a boil, turn down heat to med-low. Cover and cook for 2-3 hours.
Beat eggs and milk together, add salt and flour. Mix until dough forms, add more milk or flour if consistency is off.
Roll out dough on a floured surface and cut into strips, then cut strips to noodle length. Let dry out a couple of hours while chicken is cooking.
Remove chicken from stock. Allow chicken to cool, and remove meat. Shred meat and return to stock. Season with parsley, salt and pepper. Bring stock to a boil and add noodles. Cook until noodles are soft, about 10-15 min.
It seems like now that fall is here one of the boys is always sick.
This weekend Baby Sid had a stomach virus and the cold that everyone else has had. He was not a happy camper this weekend.
Because of him not feeling well, he didn’t get to go to the pumpkin patch with Ian’s school. I really wanted to take some pictures of Sid with the pumpkins, so I guess we will have to make a third trip!
My mom ended up doing dinner on Sunday for my Grandma & Sister’s birthdays so I carried over my plans for dinner to Monday. I was happy to have dinner in the crockpot when I got home from work, since I was exhausted.
So when we get a nice day or weekend we have to take advantage of it. Because we never know when it will come again.
We had a gorgeous day on Sunday so off to the pumpkin patch we went. We are scheduled to go to the pumpkin patch with Ian’s school. I was afraid it might rain that day which would be bad for Baby Sid.
I didn’t want Baby Sid to miss out, so this year we will have two pumpkin patch visits in the scrapbook.
Ian’s favorite thing was this slide, once he tried to climb up it, and so did my little climber Sid. I am pretty sure Sid would have climbed to the top if I had let him.
I Tri and Craft 