Chicken Tortilla Soup

 If you are here to read about running, some days you are probably confused that I talk about cooking.  A lot.  I can’t help it.  I also really like cooking when the steps are 1. chop up a lot of veggies.  2. Open half a dozen cans of various ingredients.  3. Cook together in a pot for a few hours.  The only way it could get any easier would be if it was all in a crock pot and was ready for me to eat as soon as I got home.  But today I had no such luck, as our kitchen was missing many of the crucial ingredients and I needed to make a trip to the store.

The store meant making a list, and a list meant finding a recipe,  so I went right to the internet and came up with this wonderful recipe a la The Pioneer Woman.  She is seriously amazing btw.  And I am dying to make her iced coffee very very soon.

A little bowl of heaven

This meal was a little bowl of amazing.

Lately I am noticing the increase in my desire to cook more and more creative and homemade dishes and meals.  I literally went to bed last night thinking, “I NEED to make chicken tortilla soup”.  Where do these thoughts come from?  Wherever it is, I am not complaining one little bit.  Also, I really can’t wait until summer when it is still light out when I am done cooking and I can take wonderful photographs in sunlight.  One day.  Until then I will just make wonderful food to fuel my running.