Turkey Noodle Soup

Turkey Noodle Soup

Ingredients: 

8 cups chicken broth

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped carrots*

1 cup peas

2 teaspoons salt

¼ - 1 teaspoon ground pepper**

½ teaspoon ground turmeric

2 cups uncooked extra wide egg noodles

2-3 cups cooked chopped or shredded turkey***

Directions:

1. Heat the broth, celery, carrots, peas, salt, pepper, and turmeric in a 4 ½ quart pot on medium high heat to a boil.

2. Stir in the noodles and turkey, then reduce heat to medium.

3. Cook for 10 minutes or until the noodles are tender, stirring occasionally.

* I chopped up baby carrots, but you can use fresh whole carrots. Make sure you clean and peel the whole fresh carrots before you chop them.

**For the pepper, it is up to you how much bite you want to your soup.

***You can use cooked chicken instead of the turkey. Turkey is all I had on hand when making the soup.

Also season it to your taste! That is the most important thing, season it how you would like.

Blackberry Simple Syrup Lemonade

Blackberry Simple Syrup Lemonade

Ingredients for blackberry simple syrup:

1 cup sugar (200g)

1 cup water (250ml)

1 cup fresh blackberries (148g)

Directions for simple syrup:

1.       Add the sugar, water, and blackberries in a sauce pot and start it out on high.

2.       Let it boil for about 2 minutes or until the water turns a purple color.

3.       Bring the temperature down to a simmer and let it simmer for 10 minutes.

4.       Take it off the heat and let it stand for 20 minutes.

5.       Use a wire mesh strainer and strain the simple syrup into a glass bottle. *

6.       Put into the fridge to cool down.

*I strained my syrup first into a two-cup glass liquid measuring cup, that had a bowl underneath to catch any run off from pouring. I then poured it into a glass bottle. This way was so that I didn’t make a complete mess.

Ingredients for lemonade:

1 cup sugar (200g)

1 cup water (250ml)

1 cup fresh lemon juice (250ml)

6 cups water (1500ml)

Blackberry simple syrup

Directions for lemonade:

1.       Add the sugar, water, and lemon juice into a sauce pot.

2.       Let it boil for 1-2 minutes, or enough to make sure the sugar dissolves.

3.       Take it off the heat, let it rest for 10-20 minutes.

4.       Pour into pitcher.

5.       Add as much water as you want to the pitcher, this way the lemonade is to how you like it.

6.       After the simple syrup has cooled in the fridge, add it to the pitcher of lemonade.

Fill yourself up a glass of ice and Blackberry Simple Syrup Lemonade and then sit back, relax, and enjoy!