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This year, all of our family Christmas gatherings were already concluded before the 25th, leaving me and my gun-slingin' super hero, all alone with the cat and our own devices on Christmas Day.  But alas even gun-slinging super heroes can catch colds, and when mine awoke with a bad case of the sniffles, i was inspired to cook what i have named Christmas Soup.  I was so pleased with the results, that i am inspired to make my Christmas Soup an annual tradition.  After all, Christmas time may be the most wonderful time of the year, but with all the candy, cold air, and stress, it tends also to be the most sickly time of the year, and the most challenging to our immune systems. So here's what i did.   First, i had some homemade chicken stock from the last time we thinned out our rooster population.  I made it by simmering the bones in the crockpot for many hours, in order to suck the nutrition into my stock.  It's wonderful stuff, and very good for you....

Yesterday, i wanted to make lasagna, but i didn't have most of the ingredients.  So i made a lasagna-esque dish that turned out pretty good. Ingredients 6 lasagna noodles one pound browned hamburger one can or jar (or whatever) of your preferred spaghetti sauce italian seasoning and spices one jar alfredo sauce a few ounces of plain yogurt (or whatever you have on hand) whatever cheese you can find - i had fiesta mix It's pretty simple.  I mixed about a 1/4 of container of plain yogurt (it's what was left) with most of a jar of alfredo sauce.  I boiled the noodles until they were sufficiently bendy.  I seasoned the meat with plenty of garlic powder and onion powder and italian herbs and mixed it with the spaghetti sauce and heated it up. Then i layered this business to my liking in a regular loaf pan. Two noodles on the bottom. Layer of spaghetti sauce. Layer of alfredo sauce. Two more noodles. Layer of shredded cheese. Layer of alfredo sauce. Layer ...