Egg drop soup with beef and broccoli in a few minutes.

Except I ruined my egg drop noodles by trying to photograph it while pouring.

So, you're welcome... But you know what? It still tastes great!

First I took about a soup bowl full of water and bone broth. Look, my pan is already getting too hot while I futz around with my phone's camera. I really need to improve my skills.

I put all the spices that I wanted in my soup in the water before I dropped in the eggs, so that the flavors would cook into the noodles.

While I was waiting for the broth to boil, I stirred up two eggs, and a very little bit of cream. The trick with egg drop is you stir the just barely boiling water into a whirlpool, then pour the eggs in very slowly so the thin stream of egg cooks almost immediately and makes noodles. This is where I messed up. We'll pretend those photos didn't come out somehow.

They didn't look like what I wanted, but they really took on the flavor well. Egg Drop soup is a 50 year skill.

Then I pulled apart some beef that I had stewed earlier.

So I guess it's not really a few minutes, because to get stew beef to fall apart like this you have to brown it and then stew it in clear water for at least two hours. I usually keep some in the fridge.

That looks small in the photo but it's about a cup. Now I can just throw it in the pot.

I also threw in about a cup of broccoli.

With everything I "threw in", it made about twice as much soup as I expected. Enough for that one bowl and some left over. And it was so good, I think I will go and have seconds.

I might have to make a separate post on Egg Drop Soup, since it's so much better for you than grain noodles, and it's so hard to get right. Probably if I made it every day I would be really good by now, but I only do it once a month or so, when it's cold and I'm tired.

All images from my cell phone.

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