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After watching it done on TV I got the grand notion in my head that I should make Chicken Noodle soup. Man was I way out of my league on this one.

First thing was I had to make the broth. Cutting up the chicken was pretty fun. I've never used our meat cleaver for what it was intended and I have to say that it's somwhat theraputic to take your agressions out on a piece of meat. Broth usually takes about 6-8 hours to create but the recipe I had sped that up by frying the chicken parts first to help them release their juices quicker. I saved the breast because that was going to be the meat in the soup. After about boiling the chicken for about an hour we had a hefty amount of broth.

After straining out the spent pieces and removing the fat after it settled, I added some vegetable and the chicken breasts that I had reserved. Last thing was adding egg noodles and spicing it to taste. The entire process took about 3 hours and we had a really late dinner on Tuesday.

I'm not posting the recipe because I was very underwhelmed (yes, I'm on a Sloan kick at work). The broth was okay and needed a lot of salt to help the flavor. After all of that work I think I was expecting to much because once I ate the first bite I tought that I could have saved 3 hours by just opening a can. Next time I plan on trying the old tried and true method of cooking the broth for 6 hours instead of trying to shortcut it.