TASTES | garlic thyme chicken noodle soup (with dumplings).

Hi friends! The weather is getting colder so you know what that means. Soup time. 

With that being said, I have really been craving some chicken and dumpling soup lately so I decided to come up with a new recipe that ties in some new, yet classic, flavors to keep my palate interested. 

Let me tell you, it turned out amazing, too. It was simple, quick, and super easy to make as well! 

Read on if you are interested in trying out this new recipe! 

Soup ingredients

48 oz of chicken broth

Egg noodles

2 chicken breasts

1 cup chopped carrots

1 cup chopped celery 

3-4 garlic cloves

2 stems dried thyme 

Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

First up - grab a big stock pot and fill 'er up with your chicken broth. Get it nice and boiling, then we can begin to add some ingredients. 

Now here is the key to this recipe, the garlic. Grab 3-4 cloves of garlic, peel them, then take the side of our knife and smash them. (Yes, just smash them.) Thrown 'em into the broth, let it stew.

Take your veggies, give 'em a rough chop. I like them with a little body left to 'em since they will be cooking in the soup for awhile. I like to be able to see the chunks of veggies, and not have to worry about them disintegrating. Add 'em to the soup, let them cook for 5 minutes.

Then add the noods and chopped, cooked chicken. You could go with thick egg noodles, thin, long, short, etc. Your preference entirely. Just make sure the are egg noodles. Cook for about 20 minutes on medium heat or until your noodles are soft but not too soft. El dente as the Italian's say. 

While your soup is stewing away, it's dumpling time. 

Dumpling ingredients

1 cup flour

2  teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon sugar

1 table spoon butter

Salt/pepper to taste

1 teaspoon thyme

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 cup milk

Mix your dry ingredients and butter. Make sure the butter is cold. Cut it in until there are just small little pieces of butter within the dry mix. 

Add your milk. 

Mix until it is combined. It should be a slightly sticky dough.

Add in your thyme. I usually error on the side of more since I like some flava' in my dumplings, but your call. You do you. 

Mix it all together. 

Ball it up. I like the dumplings to be about an inch in circumference, but some people like them smaller, some bigger. Again, your call. 

Drop it into the soup, and make sure the soup is hot, if not boiling.  Put the lid on the pot and simmer the soup with the dumplings for 10 to 15 minutes. Until they are cooked through. They should still taste a little doughy, but not sticky. 

And wah-lah! There is your garlic thyme chicken noodle soup. Let me tell you, this is BOMB. Please try it, and if you like it let me know! I love soup season, so I'm hoping to try making some new soups as the months get colder. 

Hope you all enjoy it as much as this loser did. 

Much love, 

Rach. 

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pumpkin pie shots.

Hi lovelies!
So, as you can see from the previous post, we just celebrated homecoming at my school. And let me tell you, it was great! 
With that said, a TON of food was made. As well as with some cute, fall-y drinks!
One of the drinks was a HUGE hit so I thought I would share it with you folks!
They are called pumpkin pie shots. 

Ingredients:  3/4 cup milk.  3/4 cup Rumchata. 1 tub of cool whip.  1 small package of pumpkin spice pudding mix. 

Recipe:  Just whisk together the milk, Rumchata, and pudding mix while slowly adding the cool whip.  Then sit it in the fridge until it becomes thickened to the wanted consistency.

Add some graham crackers around the rim and top with whipped cream to make it a little cuter and more tastier if you'd like. 
Wa-lah! It's done! 

It is the perfect little fall treat and absolutely delicious! 
Let me know what you guys think!

ooey-gooey brown sugar oatmeal cookies.

I made these wonderful cookies awhile ago and I loved them so much I figured I would let you all know about them! 
These cookies are called ooey-gooey brown sugar oatmeal cookies, and they are DELISH.
Here's what you are going to need, my loves. 

1.     1 cup softened butter

2.     1 ¼ cup brown sugar

3.     ¾ cup sugar

4.     2 tsp vanilla extract

5.     2 eggs

6.     1 tsp baking soda

7.     1 tsp baking powder

8.     ½ tsp salt

9.     2 ¼ cups all purpose flour

10. 1 cup quick cooking oats

11. 1 ½ cup coconut 

And here's how you're going to do it. 

1.   First we need to make sure to preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

2.     Then we are going to cream together the 1 cup softened butter, 1 ¼ cup brown sugar, and ¾ cup of sugar.

3.    Add one egg and mix it in until it is fully incorporated into the butter and sugars.

4.   Add the second egg, and the 2tsp vanilla and mix until everything is evenly incorporated.

5.  Add the baking soda, baking powder and salt and continue to mix until the ingredients are all well-distributed.

6.   Add about ½ of your flour and mix until the flour is thoroughly incorporated.

7.   Add the oats as well as the coconut if you choose to use it and mix until they are evenly distributed in the mixture.

8.    Roll the dough into balls that are about 1.25 inches across.

9. Place the dough balls on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and leave about 2 inches between each cookie.

10.   Bake for 8-10 minutes just until the edges are light brown.

11.   After taking the cookies out of the oven let them cook on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes. Then move them to a cooking rack.

And then you have these yummy treats! Try them out for yourself and ENJOY! :)

diy starbucks iced green tea latte.

Have you ever tried the iced green tea latte at Starbucks? Yes? Well then you know how amazing it is. 
I would literally get it every time I went to Starbucks during school. 
AH-MAZ-ING. 
Well, I have figured out the recipe to make it and I decided that I was going to share it with my lovely readers. (That's you) 
So here we go.

Ingredients 1/4 cup vanilla syrup 2 cups milk 4 or 5ish teaspoons of matcha green tea powder Ice
Here's how we do it. 

FIRST, add your syrup.

SECOND, add your milk. 

THIRD, add your matcha.  FOURTH, stir, and add in the ice. 

How easy is that? Super easy and super yummy. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do!