I have been able to avoid all colds and sickness this winter. Until now. Due to babysitting issues & the weekend, I had to have the past four days off. Which means I had the last four days with my kids home with me.
And I got a cold. A miserable, my head is gonna exploded, I can’t breather, kill me now, kinda cold. Do you think those boys would let me rest and get better?
Nope.
So it was really hard for me to think about food for this upcoming week. But I must remember that I will get better and I will need to feed the family.
So here is the plan, but don’t hold it against me if we end up with take out once or twice this week.
Here is the great thing about Meal Planning. When you plan all your meals and go to the store to get all your food for the week, you don’t have to worry about what will happen if you get snowed in.
We were stuck in the house from Thursday to Sunday and it was ok. We had enough food, we didn’t need to fight the ice and snow to get milk or chicken or anything. I knew what I would make for dinner and I had everything necessary to make it. It was a nice feeling
On Monday I made Tomato Parmesan Basil Tortellini soup and Baby Sid thought it was the most wonderful thing.
Menu Plan 2/10-2/16
Mon: Basil Parmesan Tomato Tortellini Soup (the recipe doesn’t call for Parmesan cheese, but really, why would you not. I also didn’t use condensed soup so now need for milk/cream)
Tue: Pepper & Garlic Chicken in the Crock Pot with rice
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.
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