Help me win $250. Vote for my first soup! My "clean out the fridge turkey noodle soup".

When I sat down and put this week's meal plan together last week, we had plans to be leaving town tonight. I was going to give my pots the 3 days off...in a row. *gasp* Now, we're staying put for the entire weekend. This morning, I looked through our fridge to see if I could come up with something at the last minute for dinner tonight. Something with 5 ingredients or fewer. Something I haven't had in awhile. Then, I had an idea...

Break the rules guidelines! I wasn't intending on crocking today, anyway!

There was a lot of leftover turkey from Tuesday. What do people do with leftover Thanksgiving turkey? They make soup! I haven't made a soup yet! I searched for chicken soup recipes and used my imagination to create my own based on what we had in the fridge and pantry. So, yes, this has more than 5 ingredients, but our fridge is free of some perishables, so I'm totally okay with that.

Here's what I did...

"Clean out the fridge turkey noodle soup" (6 quart pot)

~About 2 cups of cooked turkey, shredded

~1 cup carrots, peeled and chopped

~1 large can of chicken broth

~remnants (about a cup, maybe?) of an opened box of chicken stock (opened when a friend cooked for us)

~3/4 cups chopped leeks (also leftover from when the friend cooked for us-Hi Molly!)

~1 t salt

~2 chicken bouillon cubes

~2 T dried parsley

~1 t dried tarragon

~1 t minced garlic 

~5 cups of hot water

~egg noodles

Grease crock pot. 

Put all ingredients into crock pot except noodles.

Cover and cook on low for 6 hours.

Add noodles at 5 1/2 hours.

Cover and cook on low for remaining 30 minutes.

6 servings.

The fact that I hadn't actually made a soup yet reminded me of a link a friend send me a few weeks ago. (Thanks again, Bianca!) A slow cooker soups and stews contest! I revisited the link this morning. It ends today! Perfect! I know there's no chance of me winning (I can't even type that word now without hearing Charlie Sheen's voice inside my head...grr), but I'm going to enter it anyway. Why the heck not, right? 

It's a pretty tasty soup. It tasted like the chicken noodle soup you crave when you're sick. In fact, I froze the leftovers for when that inevitably happens. AND I've already entered it into the contest. VOTE FOR IT! I could win $250.