Chicken Noodle Soup of Awesomeness

I'm sick. It's gross, but what do you do? But then, I found out that my relief society president is sick and my primary secretary is sick! And they are way sicker than I am. So, for those of you who really know me, you already know how this story ends. For the rest of you... I came home from church early, took some DayQuil, slept it off, then woke up and made a massive pot of chicken noodle soup. A really good pot of soup, I might add. And it's SUPER easy. For those of you who are wondering, this is my own recipe that I made up. It's really good and I'll be honest, if I wasn't so nice, I wouldn't have given it away. And, because I'm so dang nice, I'll go ahead and share the recipe, because I love you.


The BEST chicken noodle soup EVER

1 large onion, diced
2 large carrots, diced
3 ribs of celery, diced
1 tablespoon garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil (I use garlic infused oil, personally)
8 cups chicken stock
1 cup water
1 1/2 cups diced cooked chicken
1 1/2 cups diced potatoes, cooked
1/2 package egg noodles, cooked
1 cup instant rice, uncooked
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon dried parsley
salt and pepper, to taste

Heat the oil in a stock pot. Saute onion, carrot, celery, and garlic until they soften. Add the stock and the water, and bring to a boil. Add chicken and rice, cook until chicken is heated through. Add potatoes, noodles, and seasonings. Cook until rice is done or until you feel good about it. In case you are wondering, this takes less than 30 minutes. Oh yeah!

*Note - this is also really good if you leave out the potatoes done this way. If you heap the soup over mashed potatoes, that's really good, too (props to Aunt Jill on that one).