{"id":5851,"date":"2025-04-26T09:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2025-04-26T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:50:31","slug":"quick-leftover-chicken-noodle-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5851","title":{"rendered":"Quick leftover chicken noodle soup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whole chicken comes in units of one. Affordable, and really nice roasted \u00e0 la beer can<\/a>. Feeds a family.<\/p>\n

Problem comes when your family have all buggered off* and there’s just the two of you and the cats who in this case actually don’t eat chicken***.<\/p>\n

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And then the weather in Fish Hoek turned all cold and foggy and conducive to soup.<\/p>\n

So… in a small pot (because there are only two of you, remember) boil about a litre of light stock if you have it (I didn’t****, this was a last-moment decision) or water + chicken stock powder. Add a double handful of whatever pasta is available (tagliatelle or shells would probably be best, I had penne), when it’s getting toothy add your leftover chicken (in this case a breast and a half) in bits. Mix 1\/3 to 1\/2 of a packet of mushroom soup powder with water to form a paste, stir that in, call it supper.<\/p>\n

You can zhuzh it up with parsley or chives or spring onions or Worcestershire sauce if you feel the need.<\/p>\n

(I found the inspiration here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

* Technical term**
\n** Someone said reading Pratchett as a kid completely ruined footnotes for them, because they assumed that footnotes had<\/em> to be humorous.
\n*** Hills FTW.
\n**** I mean, of course I had. In the freezer. Frozen solid.

Whole chicken comes in units of one. Affordable, and really nice roasted \u00e0 la beer can. Feeds a family. Problem comes when your family have all buggered off* and there’s just the two of you and the cats who in this case actually don’t eat chicken***. And then the weather in Fish Hoek turned all cold and foggy and conducive to soup. So… in a small pot (because there are only two of you, remember) boil about a litre of light stock if you have it (I didn’t****, this was a last-moment decision) or water + chicken stock powder. Add...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5854,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5851\/revisions\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}