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Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert is an easy dessert that you can make from a few items in the pantry and freezer at any time of the year. It works well for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, bridal or baby showers, etc. It is sweet and rich, yet somehow also seems light and refreshing. It is a rather nostalgic dessert as it reminds me a little of an orange push-up ice cream treat from my childhood. Plus, it is a molded gelatin dessert, which always reminds me of the past. As with other gelatin and fruit dishes, someone might call this a "Jello salad" in the United States. However, this recipe uses an entire quart of orange sherbert in addition to gelatin, so I can not bring myself … Continue Reading about Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert

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Easy, Classic Chicken Noodle Soup

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Easy, simple homemade chicken noodle soup is great on a cold day and/or when you have a cold.

If you have cooked chicken and homemade stock/broth in the freezer, you can easily have truly made from scratch chicken soup whenever you want. If not, you can either cook it all that day or supplement with store cooked chicken and quality commercially packaged stock.

Chicken Noodle Soup

Recipe: Easy, Classic Chicken Noodle Soup

Ingredients:

  • 1 tsp. olive oil
  • 1 tsp. butter
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 3 carrots, sliced
  • 2 celery. sliced thin
  • 1 tsp. thyme
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 quart chicken stock or broth (homemade or low soduim)
  • 1 – 2 c. chopped or shredded cooked chicken (about 1/2 of a 3 -4 pound whole chicken)
  • 6  +/-  oz. egg noodles
  • salt, to taste
  • pepper, to taste

Instructions:

  1. Add olive oil and butter to a pot or dutch oven over medium high heat.
  2. Once butter is melted add onion, carrots, and celery.
  3. While cooking vegetables, add thyme and about 1/2 tsp. salt.
  4. When vegetables have softened, add stock and bay leaf.
  5. Taste for seasoning and add more salt.
  6. After stock boils, add noodles and chicken.
  7. Taste again for seasoning when noodles are almost cooked and make additions as necessary.
  8. Remove bay leaf before serving.

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Recipe by Paula, A Simple Home Cook.

Enjoy!