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I've never been **really** good at homemade soups, esp. the way others talk about doing them: "keep a random assortment of leftovers in the freezer, then one day put them all together and get delicious soup!" I don't have an innate sense of how to do this.  
I can do chicken noodle, and even vegetable beef from scratch, or others with a recipe.
I've read on blogs where some women save their left-over gravy to add to soups, too. 
So I"m wondering if you soup experts can help me?  I have some leftovers, from a creamy chicken recipe I made yesterday for the feast day. Basically, it's chicken breasts with cream of chicken soup + wine, a little bit of asiago cheese, and bread cubes on top. I served rice with rosemary as the side.
Can I turn this into soup, if I add some more broth (obviously), and maybe some vegetables?
My crew loves soups, and we always have leftovers. But they tire of leftovers.
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I don't make a lot of soups.. but I do tend to wing it rather than follow recipes closely.
What about making it a creamy soup? that would go better with what you're working with.. more or less just an expanded (maybe thinned) version of the sauce from the chicken.
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Hmmm, so add milk instead of broth, or maybe just a little bit of broth?
I would have never thought of this as a creamy soup! See how challenged I am?
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yes I would probably do both.. add the broth and enough milk to make it creamy.. if it seems too thin (Though the rice should help it thicken) you can mix some flour into cold water or milk or broth.. just enough to make it pourable.. and slowly stir that in to thicken it up.
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I would probably look up a recipe for "cream of chicken soup" and go from there. Even when I "invent" soups from leftovers, I will often google something like "recipe soup" and some of the ingredients I have to get an idea for quantities and seasonings to add to it.
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Thanks, Jodie! I'll get it underway right after lunch. It's a good soup day: high of 3 degrees, windchill waaaayyyy below zero! Brrr...
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Yep! Add broth or water. We do this a lot!
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Oh, I love to make leftover soup. Don't worry too much, soup is very forgiving.  Chop up the chicken, put that with your leftover sauce (which sounds yummy!)into the pot, and add enough broth to make it soup-like...then go from there. Add a vegetable or two...maybe some carrots and celery and a little onion, or a couple handfuls of frozen carrots and peas, something like that. Once it's all warmed through, taste it and season it up. Maybe some salt, pepper, a little thyme? If you have cooked rice leftover too, you can throw that in at the end.
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Well, I did it! It turned out fine, thank you, ladies!
Surprisingly to me, it tasted a lot like the dish I made it from.  I"m not sure why I was surprised, I guess I thought it would taste different?
Anyway, everyone ate it. Ds, 18, LOVED it. Everyone else gave it an 'average' rating. My 12 yo. said it reminded him of a cream of crab soup he'd had once. "OH, so you like it?" I said. "No, that soup was just ok, too."
Thanks again for the help and encouragement!
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