Chicken Tortilla Soup

yumm... so I made some chicken tortilla soup last Saturday and I indeed did not like the flavor, I have some left over tonight. oh wow, the soup flavor has developed, I was actually suprised! I think next time I will boil a little longer and probably it tastes better the next day!
so this time I used follow ingredient for the soup, I did not make a big batch.

1 chicken breast
3 garlic clove (chopped)
1 medium onion
2 dried shitake mushroom - Optional (I just love to use mushroom in my soup)
1/2 cup chopped red pepper
1 T chopped jalapeno
1/2 T chipotle pepper (I used the can one)
2T some dried chili (the one I used was chili pods california)
1 bay leave
1 can chopped tomato with green chili
1t garlic powder
1t chili powder
2T tomato paste
1T honey
5 pcs corn tortilla
lemon juice
a handful of cilantro
I think I used water about 5 cups (I am not sure it was a small batch)

1. sweat the onion and garlic first around 5 minutes
2. added remaining ingredients to the pot except tortilla and lemon juice
3. Boiled for about an hour
4. added the corn tortilla to the soup and boiled additional 15 minutes
5. take out the chicken and shredded it
6. puree the soup with handheld blender
7. put the chicken back to the soup and add the cilantro cook for about 10 mins
8. taste with salt and pepper a splash lemon juice

so in my previous post I mentioned that I am not familiar with pepper, and yes I found it very challenging when I was looking for chipotle powder, at the local market that I went to did not really carry chipotle powder, I am not sure if there is other name for it. I found some chipotle pepper in a can so I got them. There are a lot peppers in a small can, I froze the rest of the peppers individually (some people suggest to puree them and put them in ice tray and freeze them - really good idea I would do it next time).
I was also looking for ancho chili, I couldn't find them. Now I learned that they also called pasilla, they are next to those california chili pod I bought, I think I saw pasilla in powder form too. I love adding chili to the dishes, I will continue to try different chili. :)