Daring Cooks: Quick and Easy Chicken Pho (Pho Ba)

The October 2009 Daring Cooks' challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen. The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook. I'll be honest here - I wasn't particularly excited about this challenge. I've made pho before, and I love it, but I didn't want to do a second post on it. Plus, the main recipe presented to us was for chicken pho, and I don't usually care for chicken soups. So I dragged my feet on completing this challenge and didn't make it until last night. I'm glad I did though, because it was really good, and really EASY. Crazy easy. 90% of the ingredients are things that I generally have on hand (and the other 10% could be omitted or swapped) so this is a great recipe to keep in the back of your mind for when dinner hasn't been planned. And the best part is that it makes very few dishes, so cleanup is a breeze![....]