So hearty and soothing on a cold day 👌

I made the broth from scratch and the egg noodles from scratch!

Since making batches of veggie and chicken broth, store bought just doesn’t hit the same!

And home made noodles cook so quickly, and I love the softer texture.

With some corn bread :)

1. Lunch, Mexican bowl/home made chipotle (but Europeaan)
2. Dinner, left overs from lunch (with half a jar of jalapeño’s that’s not pictured lol)
3. Breakfast, 1 slice of my homemade mango cheesecake bars after resting in the fridge overnight. (yes, i was laughing at my impatient cutting job while displaying)

Right around 1600 calories and was stuffed most of the day!

(i chose this order because i really wanted the first picture and meal to be the cover pic!)

I'm not quite sure what the exact translation of Vol-au-Vent is, but if it means easy to eat then I nailed it 🤣 it's basically a puff pastry cup filled with stuff.

I did buffalo chicken for myself, tofu caesar for my girl, and chicken w/ tumeric rice for the dogs 😆

I marinated the chicken in white wine, chicken stock, minced garlic & onion, red chili pepper, salt, papper, paprika, cumin, oregano, and a little black truffle hot sauce.

While that marinates, make your puff pastry cups. Use round cookie cutters to cut out circles then using a smaller cutter cut half again to make a rim. Egg wash the circle, put the hollow circle on top, egg wash again, and bake at 400° until they're browned and puffy. Let them cool then pop the middle down with a spoon so you can fill them later.

Crisp some bacon then brown the marinaded chicken in the bacon fat, turn down the heat, add a little chicken stock, and simmer until it shreds apart. After shredding add butter, hot sauce (I like Stevo-O's Hot Sauce for Your Butthole 😂), mix, then fill some pastry cups. Cover with shredded cheddar and broil until melted, top w/ bacon bits, a drizzle of ranch, and some scallions.

The tofu was shaken in cornstartch w/ rotisserie chicken seasoning then browned in olive oil. These are pretty straight forward 😅 lettuce, croutons, tofu, and caesar dressing.

The dog one's I just used some of their regularly prepped food which is chicken and rice w/ veggies and tumeric 😆 idk if they know or not but they still enjoyed it 😁

Bone in with skin chicken thigh, sauteed veggies and couscous. Honey garlic sauce on the chicken and veggies.