So I couldn't do it...I couldn't lie. Those of you who know me know that I can't lie to save my life anyway, so to lie, to the Lutherans...to their faces, about the soup - wasn't going to happen. I thought I could make a go of it, but as soon as I got there, someone asked me for my recipe. Ummm, recipe? Yeah...now where did I put that recipe? Hmmmm...
Lemon-rice soup recipe:
1. Get out crock pot.
2. Go to Pappas Family Restaurant
3. Order quarts of soup
4. Gently (and this is important) pour the soup into the crock pot with minimal splatter on your work clothes.
5. Turn on crock pot.
6. Serve!
They couldn't have cared less. It was gone in 10 minutes...everyone loved my secret lemon-rice soup. BRILLIANT.
It's Wednesday...again...and I'm supposed to be bringing soup...again. Well - I haven't had a moment of downtime since I got home. Some of you might argue that I could have made soup on Monday night instead of having wine with my girlfriends who stopped by after the school board meeting ten different shades of pissed off. I couldn't! I had to make the chips & salsa that I learned how to make at my knife skills class! I mean, I had to feed them, right? What kind of hostess would I be??? It was bad enough I made them sit there and watch me put away groceries while we chatted...I couldn't have them starving, too.
So today, new plan...new lie. I can totally do this. Except, the soup might suck. I bought some powdered broccoli/cheese soup package ... just add water! And it's in the crock pot right now cooking away. But here's the kicker. I needed hot water. And we don't have a stove here, so I used the hot water from the coffee maker. And YES, I just pushed the brew button and let it fill up a coffee pot of hot water and poured it into the soup mix. The real problem? I didn't want to use the filter basket because that TOTALLY reeks like coffee. The pots are fine, but the filter basket? Smells the like coffee past and it's not good. But if you don't use the filter basket, the water kind of sprays everywhere...and not in the coffee pot. So I put some clean filters in there and I tasted the water...it didn't taste like coffee....so I think I'm good.
Seriously? I'm serving coffee-broccoli-cheese soup to the Lutherans tonight. I'm even more pathetic than last week. I didn't sign up for next week's supper. Phew! I'll let you know how it goes.
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Pa hissing my pants...you and your situations you call life...unbelievable!!!! O.k. now back to a previous blog wherein a certain someone inquired about passing of the gas in front of a significant other...did any one watch South Park last night? OMG Kenny spontaniously combusted and no one could figure out why until the great scientist Randy Marsh figured out it was because he was holding his gas because he had a new girlfriend...GOOD ONE
Ya shoulda checked with me first, Rebecca. Us workin' moms gotta help each other out.
There are a couple great ways to "customize" broccoli cheese soup. First, stir in some salsa and you've got "Fiesta Cheese/Broccoli Soup."
Or add some sour cream (or white wine) and a little fresh basil and garlic. I don't know what you call it but it's good and again, it gives the appearance that you might have made it.
Impresses the heck outta folks.
Colleen - I have more soup dinners in my future AND another child who will eventually come up through these same ranks. I will keep this information tucked away for future use!!!
THANKS!
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