Mmm Mmm Better

I made a cooking discovery this evening. We've had a cold snap the last week and I wanted to make chicken noodle soup for dinner. I rummaged through the pantry and discovered that we had ramen noodles. I did something wildly out of character: I cooked without a recipe.

The end result? I made something that tasted quite a bit like chicken noodle soup out of a can, but better. The ramen noodles mimicked the canned noodles, so the consistency was right. Two out of three children loved it. The third used his noodles to create an artistic design on the table and then spooned the majority of his food into Phoebe's bowl. He finally choked down a few bites, but he tends to only like cereal and fruit and beans, so I was happy he even attempted it.

Hooray for throwing four packages of ramen noodles, a bag of frozen vegetables, a can of Costco chicken, six cubes of bullion, a few shakes of pepper, a few shakes of thyme, and twelve cups of water into a pot and ending up with a delicious meal!