Recipe Wednesdays Trudy Soup 6/15/11

I know it's late Wednesday, but it's still Wednesday in California and it counts! hahaha :) I have had one of those bad days where everything hurts and my skin burns as though I've been out in the sun all day. The problem is I haven't been out in the sun, I'm just having one of those Fibromyalgia days :0)

When I went to visit my friend Trudy that lives in Wichita, KS three years ago for Christmas she served us one of the best soups my family has had! It is so simple to make and it is wonderful anytime of the year...at least that's what my family says :0) I think they say this just so I won't complain making it in the heat of the California Summer!

The Original name of this soup is Chicken Noodle & Wild Rice, but my family dearly calls it "The Trudy Soup!"

The Trudy Soup

10 Cups of Water

1/2 Cup of chopped Onion

1 (12 oz) pk Reames Home Style Frozen Egg Noodles

1 (6.2 oz) box of 5 Minute long Grain & Wild Rice

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon of pepper

1/4 teaspoon of poultry seasoning

2 cups of half and half at Room temperature!

1 1/2 pounds of boneless/skinless chicken (will make about 3 -4 cups of cooked chicken)

Green Beans (optional)

DIRECTIONS:

In a large Pot pour the water and add the chicken to cook. Once the chicken is cooked you can take it out of the pot and cut into small pieces. I have this real neat tool from Pampered Chef "the Salad Choppers" they are for cutting lettuce, onions, fruit, chicken, etc. I don't have to take out the chicken from the pot, I chop it directly inside the pot with the chicken broth. 

Once you have chopped your chicken, Add the chopped onions, the package of Reames Home Style Frozen Egg Noodles, the box of long grain wild rice with the seasoning mix. Add the salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Stir often until rice and noodles are tender. Approx. 22-25 minuntes.  

this is how your chicken should look like

You will find in the Freezer sectiction

Once all the ingredients are done, add more salt and poultry seasoning to TASTE! Now you will add the Room temperature Half and Half little by little. It is very important to do this slowly! If done all at once the half and half starts to coagulate and that's not what we want. 

This is the end result of the Trudy soup! I steam the Green beans and serve it with the Green beans on the bottom of the soup. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think :)

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