Chicken Noodle Soup of Major Healing Power

Swine flu up in this beyotch.

As it turns out your lovely blog-host and favourite redhead is sick as a porcupine on methamphetamine. Yep. I even had to spend part of my labor day weekend in the swine flu quarantine ward of the hospital. Awesome.

Apparently when you have coughs, a throat full of stinging nettle, aches so bad your hair hurts and a skull so full of yuck that it feels like its gonna crack, coupled with a temp of 104, people freak out, send you to the hospital, and you get quarantined in the swine flu ward. Now, being quarantined I can deal with.... if it weren't coupled with feeling like I'd been run over by a truck and being subjected to an iCarly marathon on the only channel the tv in my room got. As I lay there, suffering, writhing in misery induced by fever and teenybopper tv all I could think is that if I could only get away and eat some of my "Chicken Noodle Soup of Major Healing Power" this could all be over.

It's true. My Chicken Noodle Soup is fantastic. Best tasting chicken soup ever. And it fixes everything. Seriously, it's probably even the cure for HIV. You can patent it if you want. I don't mind. I'm just that nice. Erm, uh, at any rate, I figure what better than to share with you on this lovely sick day than the recipe for my famous.....

Chicken Noodle Soup of Major Healing Power

• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 2 medium carrots, cut diagonally into 1/2-inch-thick slices
• 2 celery ribs, halved lengthwise, and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices
• 4 fresh thyme sprigs
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 quarts chicken stock
• 1 bouillion cube (preferably chicken and garlic)
• 8 ounces dried wide egg noodles
• 1 1/2 cups diced cooked chicken
• Sea Salt
• Black Pepper

Get a big ol' soup pot and put it on medium heat. Drizzle the olive oil in the bottom and add the onion, garlic, carrots, celery, thyme and bay leaf. Cook and stir for about 6 minutes, until the vegetables are softened but not browned. If it's a super chicken soup emergency and you need to move faster skip this step, place the veggies in a tupperware, squirt with buttery spray and a splash of water, cover with cling wrap and microwave 2 minutes.

Pour in the chicken stock, toss in the bouillon cube, and bring the liquid to a boil. Add the chicken and let it simmer together. About 6 or 8 minutes before it's time to eat add the noodles. When the noodles are good and floppy like a noodle shoud be, season with salt and pepper, dump into a bowl and let the healing begin.

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