Week 6 - Chicken and Noodles

So here is what I wanted to make off Pioneerwomancooks.com that required the homemade noodles. It was delicous. I highly recommend it.

Here is her recipe and if you follow the link you can see all her pictures.

Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Cook Time: 1 Hour
Difficulty: Easy
Servings: 6
Ingredients
1 whole Cut Up Fryer Chicken
2 whole Carrots, Diced
2 stalks Celery, Diced
½ whole Medium Onion, Diced (optional)
1 teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoons Turmeric
¼ teaspoons White Pepper (more To Taste)
¼ teaspoons Ground Thyme
2 teaspoons Parsley Flakes
16 ounces, weight Frozen "homemade" Egg Noodles
3 Tablespoons All-purpose Flour
Preparation Instructions
Cover chicken in 4 quarts water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Simmer for 30 minutes.
Remove chicken from pot with a slotted spoon. With two forks, remove as much meat from the bones as you can, slightly shredding meat in the process. Return bones to broth and simmer on low, covered, for 45 minutes.
Remove bones from broth with a slotted spoon, making sure to get any small bones that might have detached.
Add the carrots and celery (and onions, if using) to the pot, followed by the herbs and spices. Stir to combine and simmer for ten minutes to meld flavors.
Increase heat and add frozen egg noodles and chicken. Cook for 8 to 10 minutes.
Mix flour and a little water. Stir until smooth. Pour into soup, stir to combine, and simmer for another 5 minutes, or until broth thickens a bit. Test and adjust seasonings as needed.

Here is what I did different. I added 1 tsp of onion powder and 4 tsp of chicken boullion. And it took me two bowls of flour to get it thick enough.

Week 5 - Homemade Egg Noodles

I decided to try a new recipe from pioneerwomancooks.com and she recommended using homemade noodles for it and then she confided that the frozen bag of homemade noodles found at her grocery store in her small Oklahoma town. She often implies that if she has it there in Podunk, OK then we all will for sure have it wherever we may be.

I am here to tell you that despite being apart of the great metropolitan area of NYC the grocery stores here SUCK! There are no frozen homemade noodles to be found. The problem with grocery shopping here is that there are thousands of small stores -- each one with its own peculiarities and to find all the "normal" stuff I need it is not uncommon for me to have to frequent 4 grocery stores. Some of them even have names like "Super" in front of them. What they mean is "Super" expensive, super inconvenient, super likely to not have what I want.

So I had to make my own noodles. I followed the instructions on PW's website. Here is the link http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2009/05/homemade-pasta/

It was not so hard (6 eggs, 3 cups flour). But it was messy.

Lots of kneading and adding in a little flour.

I rolled it out (and now after they have been cooked) wished I had rolled it thinner, but I had already spent more time on this than I wanted. They were tasty.