mom's chicken noodle soup

Ingredients For mom's chicken noodle soup

• 1 lb

  chicken breasts cooked and shredded.
• 1 qt

  chicken stock, homemade or canned, broth or boullion also works with varying results
• 3

  carrots, sliced or chopped
• 2

  celery stalks chopped
• 1

  onion, chopped
• ginger, approx one inch peeled and chopped
• 3 clove

  garlic, peeled and chopped
• 2 tsp

  lemon juice
• 1 lb

  egg noodles, uncooked, preferrably homemade.
• 1 Tbsp

  olive oil
• 1

  bay leaf, fresh or dried
• black pepper, to taste
• salt, to taste.