Hardworking Man's Wife's Soup Made Simple

This is for my DH for the wood he hauls and the outside work, and for starting my car on freezing mornings. It is a fast and simple soup to warm the cockels in a hurry. This isn't a soup you slave over, it really is a quik soup to warm anyone up on a blustery day.

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 2  quarts chicken broth (I use homemade but canned will do just fine)
• 2  carrots, sliced thin discs
• 1  stalk celery, sliced
• 1  medium onion, sliced 1/8ths
• 1  cup  cooked chicken, cut into pieces (can buy deli chicken in a 1/2 lb chunk and cube, or 6 oz.can of chicken meat)
• 8  ounces corn (frozen or canned)
• 1  teaspoon  minced garlic
• 1  teaspoon basil, crushed
•  salt and pepper
• 1⁄4 lb  egg noodles (optonal) or 1⁄4 lb pasta, of choice (optonal)

Directions

1. slice up carrots and celery put into pot.
2. add in chicken broth, bring to rolling boil for 5 minute.
3. add in remaining ingredients.
4. simmer on stove while DH works hard.
5. note: if adding noodles, add in last 10 min of simmer to cook al dente).
6. *** I usually cook my pasta seperate so it does not mush in the soup for leftovers, but can be cooked in the pot with the soup.
7. *** for a quicker version and I have done this- using canned mixed vegetables instead of fresh and add to broth and chicken, simmer til warmed.
8. Serve with a crusty bread or a grilled chees sandwich and a hot toddy. :-).