Some friends went today to a neat restaurant that cooks different dishes every day (just a few), home-cooking style. Which is normally yummy and fantastic. Today, however, they were out of soup...but said it would just be a couple of minutes. We said we'd wait.
Half an hour later, there was finally soup, but it wasn't the carrot & lentil on the menu. It was...well, it was green. Beyond that I'm not sure. The consensus was that it was "what have we got in the kitchen to make soup with" soup. See, we figure that their standard answer when they run out of soup is "it will be a few minutes," and then people pick something else rather than wait. When we called their bluff, they had to throw something together...herbs, water and some thickening agent, as far as we could tell. And it took half an hour because they had to make it from scratch.
It was delicious, by the way. Just not sure if it had, you know, nutritional content.
So I decided for take 2 at supper - I still don't have my dishes so I can't cook properly, but the grocery store had ready-made soups. And, special for October, they have a halloween soup: pumpkin and haricot. And it's delicious! And it's pumpkin, which sort of makes up for no thanksgiving. Soooo all in all, I count that a win.
Trouble is, I keep forgetting in between spoonfuls that it's pumpkin. And it looks like butternut squash, so then that's what I expect, and I keep being surprised by the taste. My tongue is confusing my brain...
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