A Skip and a Hop to China!

Today I think was the first time that I truly wished I was home!!!!! I miss my momma's good ol' Southern cookin' complete with a stick of butter and plenty of love. Sam and I have been cooking for ourselves for the last week. I wanted to try something from home, chicken noodle soup. I went to the market two days ago and bought a chicken, complete with head, feet, and some feathers. I also bought some vegetables, noodles, and chicken bouillon. I was so excited when I got home to start cooking. I started to boil the chicken. I couldn't cut off the foot or wing so I just left it on there. EWW!!! While that was boiling I cut up the veggies. Adding the veggies to the broth and letting those cook together I started the task of getting the meat off the chicken. What meat??? There was nothing on this scrawny chicken!! I overcooked it, I think, which is better than under cooking it when I wasn't sure exactly how long it had been sitting in the market. At this point I was starting to lose confidence in this soup. Adding what little meat I could find on that chicken and the noodles I left the concoction to stew. Oh, I also added the chicken bouillion and some white pepper. When it was done it tasted nothing like my mom's chicken noodle soup. Sam was so brave and tried some of it. He said that it could be saved if I just maybe added some water. Way to be the optimist Sam!! I tried that and it didn't work!! I think that chicken bouillion was what made it taste bad or the white pepper. All I know is that Sam and I later went out to eat at a resturant instead of eating my soup. I ended up not touching it and throwing away the whole batch! Oh well, at least I get points for trying right?