Ramen Chicken Soup Hack & an Update

 

Hello Friends and happy Thursday to you! 

It's a gray and dark one here today. It's been kind of a gray week this week. Haven't seen much sunshine, which doesn't help with pep and energy. Lol But I've been getting my workouts in and they do help my brain wake up :) It looks like a more mild, and potentially sunny, forecast going into the weekend - thank goodness! ☀️ 

However, the nice thing about cool gray weather is that it equals yummy soup time! And we had a tasty one yesterday. I had a ramen soup pack needing to be used up (I have them around sometimes for my son). And a rotisserie chicken to use up. So I thought the best way to use them both was to make a sort of semi-homemade chicken soup with them. I had veggies and a carton of chicken broth too, so it came together pretty easily. 

I didn't get a pic of the process, but I did get a pic of some of the items I had on hand to add to the flavoring. 

Have you ever had Pho soup? I love it and I love it's rich warm spicy asian broth. So I kind of channeled that a little. 

I satueed some chopped onion, celery and carrot in a little olive oil and butter. I added salt, pepper and some chinese 5 spice (for that sweet spicy taste). I cooked the veggies until they were soft. I then added a carton of chicken broth and some water so it equaled about 6 cups total. I brought that up to a boil. I then added the ramen noodles from the packet and cooked for 3 minutes (until they were done). I took the pan off the heat and added in some chopped rotisserie chicken, about a tbsp of soy sauce, a tsp or 2 of rice wine vinegar, and a tsp of sesame oil. I put back on low heat until all was heated through and served it up. Aaron was over and he and Matt both gave it 2 thumbs up! It was pretty tasty. I found it a quick and easy way to make a different kind of chicken noodle soup. It's fun to shake it up once in a while, right? 😋 

**Also, I wanted to share an update as far as the privacy thing related to my blog. I was really hoping there was a way to have it be private and yet that I could provide a link where you friends could request access. I found out there are some people reading my blog that I would prefer not know my business. I did make sure I didn't have any links in social media anymore. And I took off the ability for search engines to find it. When I did make it private for a few days, as I worked on it, I received the sweetest messages from many of you on the blog here (& in private messages) saying you enjoy my blog and were sad if you couldn't access it. It went right to my heart and I would rather keep it available to all. So I'll hope that the others will grow bored and fade away from it. If not, so be it.  

I absolutely love the connections and friends I have made in this blogland community and I would miss it if we couldn't connect. So I'm not planning to go anywhere. 😊 💕 

Thanks again for the kindness and support I've always felt in this space of fellow momma's and like-minded homemakers. I treasure my friendships with all of you!! I hope there to be many years ahead sharing with you all! Blessings always. xo