Soup of the Week – Chicken Soup of Necessity

If you’re waiting for the spicy butternut and vegetable “stoup” recipe I promised, it’s still coming.

But this week I made homemade chicken noodle soup because it was necessary. The Fab Hub is sick. (Again.)

Normally, the man has the immune system of steel. He rarely gets sick and when he does, it’s like 24-hour death and then it’s over.

But he’s in a new job which means a new environment and new germs. And that environment happens to be an elementary school. Oh, and his job happens to be one that often requires him to handle the mobile devices used by all of those elementary school children. And everybody knows that elementary school children are like very cute yet very disgusting little walking germs.

And so this week we had homemade chicken noodle soup because what better for a nasty cold than homemade chicken soup? Your grandmother knew what she was talking about when she called it homemade penicillin.

I’ve done chicken soups before. You can check them out right here on the blog by following the links below.

TToT – Sick Tea and Chicken Soup Edition

Soup of the Week – Matzah Ball Soup

Soup of the Week – Lemon Chicken Orzo Edition

And if you’re looking for straight up homemade chicken or vegetable broth, check out Soup of the Week – Trifeca Edition. That’s where I shared my homemade broth methods.

So why chicken soup of necessity? Well, because in addition to being sick, my Hub is also stubborn. You see, he won’t admit that he’s sick. And he certainly won’t drink the sick tea* I offer him because he thinks it tastes like feet.

But I made him the sick tea anyway, because it’s good for him and I love him. I don’t honestly know if he drank it or not. I took it to him in his Hub Cave when he was doing some school work. I do know that the honey, lemon, and garlic combo is liquid magic and I know if he gets that stuff in him, he’ll start to feel better.

Enter the chicken soup.

This is nothing special, really. Just your standard chicken soup – two quarts of homemade chicken broth, chopped carrots, onion, and celery**, some oregano, a few handfuls of egg noodles, a little fresh lime juice, and enough minced garlic to gag a maggot.

There’s more than one way to skin a cat.

The Hub is on the mend, by the way. But if you ask him, he wasn’t really sick in the first place. It’s just allergies. (Ahem. OK.) But you know, sometimes in marriage we just have to agree to disagree about whether or not one’s wife was right.

And the spicy butternut and vegetable recipe is yet to come – it’s on the menu plan for the week. In the meantime, I’m going to grab another cup of home remedy love and head to bed so I don’t end up getting a full-blown version of the Hub’s germs.

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*You can grab the recipe for the sick tea in the Sick Tea and Chicken Soup link above.

**Yes, I used celery in a recipe. On purpose. And I might do it again. We’ll talk about that later.