It's officially fall.

It's officially fall. So to celebrate, yesterday and today I made chicken soup. I have a recipe that I took off the foodnetwork.com by Emril. I made it once before and it turned out ok. Not great, just ok. This time, I used a whole chicken cut into pieces, two whole bulbs of garlic, and two boullion cubes. I know that last ingredient is kind of cheating, but last time, even when I used salt and garlic salt, it just was missing something. I made the soup stock yesterday while Russell and I were out. When I drained everything the stock was a beautiful, rich, dark brown color. Last night it had been light yellow. I was really excited because now it looked like all the homemade stocks that the food network chefs use. Score one for me! I tasted it and it was yummy. It definitely needed salt, but I didn't add any yet. Russell and I were getting ready for a date night so I quickly put everything away. This afternoon, I shreaded the chicken and began making the soup itself. Onions, garlic, carrots, and celery all went in. The chicken too. Then the stock. I brought it to a boil and added salt, garlic salt and tons of pepper. It is absolutely delicious!!!!! Because it is chicken NOODLE soup, I'm supposed to add noodles as well. Right now my plan is to cook the noodles separately and add them as needed so that I can have left overs with noodles that are not soggy.

Next cooking adventure? Butter. Again =)

PS: the baby blanket is coming along great! Pictures soon to come.