CP Shrimp Wanton Soup

I love love love this soup! It is so fast and easy but yet sooo delicious!!!

Clam Chowder

1 stick Butter
1/2 onion, small chop
2 celery stocks, small chop
Garlic, Pepper, Salt
1/2c. Flour
4-5 c. diced potatoes
3c. Water (include clam juice)
2-3 Tb Chicken bouillon
3c. Milk
4-6 can clams

In small pot melt butter, sauté onion and celery. Add spices then flour and brown the flour to make a rue. Slowly add milk and stir til creamy.
In a larger pot boil potatoes in clam juice, chicken bouillon and water til tender. Add thicken milk mixture and clams. Stir and let all ingredients simmer til thickened.

Chicken Soup with Grandma's Homemade Noodles

1 rotisserie Chicken, deboned
6 carrots, sliced
3 Celery stalks, sliced
Water
Chicken bouillon
Garlic
Egg Noodles (home made see recipe below or dried)

In pot boil Water with bouillon and garlic. Boil vegetables til tender, remove. Boil noodles then add vegetables and chicken to broth, serve.

Grandma's Homemade Noodles

2c. Flour
3 eggs
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking Powder
Splash of milk

Pile flour onto a clean dry surface. Mix in salt and baking powder. Make a well and break eggs into it Mike with hands until it forns a soft dough. Add milk as needed. On a floured surface roll out dough thin and slice noodles with a pizza cutter. Shake of excess flour and gently drop noodles into boiling chicken broth. Cook for about 8 mins. They will puff slightly when cooking.

My Grandma Dixon would ALWAYS have a pot of homemade Chicken noodle soup ready for us when ever we came to visit. So warm and delicious, homemade noodles mmmmmmm you can just taste the Love!!

Meaty Minestrone Soup

1 Lb Italian Sausage
1 link smoked Sausage, diced
1/2 med onion, diced
3-4 Carrots, chopped
1/2 bag frozen cut green beans
Handful of frozen chopped spinach
1 zucchini, diced
6oz. Mini shell pasta
1 can diced tomatoes
2 can Cannellini Beans
1 can dark red Kidney Beans
2-3 diced potatoes, optional
Beef Broth or Bouillon
Garlic
Italian seasoning
Basil
Black Pepper
1 1/2c. Salsa
1/2c. Parmesan Cheese

Brown Sausage then add smoked sausage and chopped onion, continue to brown. Next add carrots. Cook til carrots are almost tender. Add enough water to half way of pot. Stir in beef bouillon and tomatoes, salsa and spices. Taste. Add dry pasta and let boil 5 mins. Add zucchini, green beans and spinach and keep boiling another 5 mins. Or so then when pasta and zucchini are tender add beans and Parmesan cheese.

I made this for a Super Saturday lunch, it was amazing!!!! By far my favorite! It has a hearty and warm rich broth,the cannellini beans are creamy. With all the meat even the boys don't complain about all the vegetables. Serve with warm crusty bread, Mmmmmm Perfect! I think I'll make some tonight. Any left overs can be frozen.

Chicken Tortilla Soup

1 Rotisserie Chicken, de-boned and chopped
8-10c. Water
1c. Chicken Bouillon
2-3c. Salsa (see Blender Salsa)
2 lg. carrots, diced
4-5c. Spanish Rice

Garnish:
Grated cheese
Green onion
Diced Avocado
Fresh Cilantro
Crunched up Corn Chips
Lime or Lemon Juice

Combine water and bouillon in large soup pot. Boil diced carrots til tender. Add Salsa, Chicken and rice. (Whenever i have left over Spanish rice I will freeze it, then you can unthaw when you need it. Or when I don't have extra rice and don't have time to make some I cheat and go through the drive thru at my local Beto's and buy a lrg. to go box of Spanish rice $3.98, now wasn't that easier?!!)
Serve with any or all of the suggested garnishments, Great on a chilly day.

I made this tonight and everyone loved it! I've made it a dew times but just threw it together, I thought I better write it done while I can still "guesstimate" the amounts. Feel free to taste as you go and make your own adjustments.