comfort food

We had some on the menu this evening, but didn't quite get it made. Not difficult, just takes pulling chicken off the bone, and I didn't get to it in time. It is still on the menu, just for tomorrow instead. So what is this lovely comfort food? Why, chicken noodle soup of course. Are you too surprised? I wouldn't think so.

Chicken soup is pretty easy, but the process takes some time. We boil up the chicken and then let it cool so we can get the meat off.. which, of course goes back in the pot of what is now broth. Add a few veggies, depending mostly on what is in the house: onion, carrot, green beans, etc and let them cook for a good while. Finally, about half an hour before we are ready to eat, in go the noodles. Not just ANY noodles, you must understand, but the thick egg noodles that taste like the egg noodles Mom would occasionally make. Yeah... there is the comfort in the comfort food. Hers, being more floury than these are, being bought and all, would thicken the soup nicely. There was - one time or another - debate about whether that extra gooeyness was a good thing or not, but it never kept anyone from eating them that I ever knew of. On the contrary, vistors would mostly want there to be enough so that they could take some home, too.

Well, we don't hand make the noodles, but when the noodles we like, by the name of Country Pasta, are not in stock at Sam's (they seem to be a cold-weather seasonal item) in the big bag, we go looking at Walmart for the smaller bag, and sometimes our anxiety might show. And how do we know its good comfort food? Our sentiment on that was best expressed by Raine one evening as I set her bowl in front of her. "Now, THAT was what I was wanting."