Once upon a time, my brother-in-law met a girl from Oklahoma named Janna. He liked her so much that he married her. So now one of my best friends is an Okie at heart. When Janna moved from Oklahoma to Indiana, she brought one of my absolute, hands-down favorite recipes with her: chicken tortilla soup.
I have no idea if it's authentic and, based on the massive block of Velveeta cheese, it is definitely not healthy.
But it is delicious.
When I first tasted it, I begged her for the recipe which she wrote down which I lost after a little while. Then she decided to put the recipe on her blog because everyone always asks for it.
Two winters ago, I created a post linking to my five favorite fall soup recipes and included Janna's soup. It might appear I did this for all my precious readers. But in reality, I created it for myself so whenever I needed those recipes, I knew right where to find them.
Are you seeing the terrible error in all of this?? I never wrote out the world's best chicken tortilla soup recipe. I relied on THE INTERNET.
Houston, we have a problem.
So a couple weeks ago, cool weather set in and I desperately craved cheesy, creamy goodness. I got this craving in the grocery store but thought, "no problem, just go to Janna's blog."
I got this message:
Dread started to settle in my stomach. I called Janna to see if she was home and could give it to me over the phone. Our conversation went something like this:
Katie: "Hey, I need the chicken tortilla soup recipe. I clicked on your blog but it looks like you deleted the blog?
Janna: "Yeah I did....OH NO! I don't think I have that recipe written down! Whenever I wanted to make it, I just went to my blog."
**Katie panicking in aisle five**
End scene.
The next couple days were a blur of the two of us trying to finding the recipe in our cookbooks, scraps of paper and Gmail.
I tried to make it from memory. The soup tasted fine but it was not the same blend of goodness. My tears of sadness dripping into the pot didn't help either.
Then Janna called. She found it. CRISIS OVER.
She e-mailed it to me. I wrote it out and placed it in my cookbook. I'm thinking about printing it out in a banner and laminating it.
But I also am creating this post so when I get the craving in the grocery store, I can pull this sucker up.
And now you can have it too. But please learn from my mistakes and keep a back-up in secure and safe location. You're welcome.
Janna's Chicken Tortilla Soup
1/2 block of Velveeta Cheese
1 can cream of celery soup
2-3 cans chicken broth
1 can red beans, drained and rinsed
1 can cream of celery soup
2-3 cans chicken broth
1 can red beans, drained and rinsed
1 can Ro-Tel
1 can chicken and rice soup
1 lb cooked chicken (can be canned)
1 can chicken and rice soup
1 lb cooked chicken (can be canned)
Add all the ingredients in a stockpot and heat up.
3 comments:
Silly people. I had the recipe.
I now have it written down, in my e-mail and on my phone as it's own 'contact' in case we have another pregnancy moment when you need to soup...IMMEDIATELY!
Yum. I will definitely be trying that soup out!
Oh wait, is this the same tortilla soup Jen makes (or, at least made once at her Christmas cookie party which you didn't attend because you live in Indiana but I'm sure you would have attended it you lived in Texas and probably Madeline too but maybe it would have been past her bedtime so I don't know.)? If so, it is amazing and I can see where your angst was coming from.
PS. I've been a blog stalker of yours for awhile now and I've decided to be a grown up about it and follow you publicly. Love, love, love your blog!! :)
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