I have a soup problem. See, I like to make soup, particularly a beef vegetable soup I learned from my mom, who learned from her mom… it’s a soup legacy. And when I make it, every single time, I have way too much ingredients and not enough pot. So, every time I take out a second pot and start bailing the one pot into two. My two biggest pots always held five quarts until my sister sent me an eight quart pot through the mail. This should have solved my soup problem, but it didn’t. Every time now I fill that eight quart pot thinking it’ll fit, hit the top and still have plenty of ingredients left to add… I guess I have big eyes. Today it’s supposed to blizzard. Perfect day to make soup. So I went to the store last night, braved the supermarket snow panic, and got my ingredients. Smartly, I started this morning with two pots side by side, and I added the ingredients, filled both pots to the top, and… it should have fit but it didn’t. I had to pull out my five quart crock pot (also from my sister) and start bailing my two pots into three. I have a soup problem.
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i went out this morn to get ingredients for a medium size batch of chili and
a large pot of pasatelli( italian bread soup). figured the one pot i chose would be big enough for the chili but had to bail into another. now i do not know if i have a pot big enough for the pasatelli. the chili is done and is now fermenting in its many spices. should be good and infused by this evening. the pasatelli takes very little time and am going to make it for the children for dinner. all of the twelve hempstead grandkids can eat obscene amounts of pastelli. all of my brothers and cousins can as well. none of the daughter in laws can stand it however. i guess some tastes are hereditary.
there are exactly twenty beers on hand for tonights shoveling festivities and chili breaks. hope i dont run out.
Mmmmmm. Chili.
Lori thinks I’m crazy, but I like to put my chili over rice. I guess it comes from growing up so close to New Orleans.
ky
i like chili over rice as well but i usually just eat it with a torilla chip instead of a spoon.
try puttiing it on top of your pizza.
go super light or none at all as far as beans are concerned.
mo meat.
I agree with the tortilla chips, but not with the beans. In fact, for a large batch, I like to have one can of black beans and one can of kidney beans. They’re the magical fruit, you know.
And you’re absolutely insane on the pizza/chili idea. That ruins both!
ky
chili spaghetti, a cincinnati classic!!!!
What gets served in Cincinnati doesn’t even qualify as chili. It’s ground meat and nutmeg and cinnamon and ketchup served on spaghetti with beans and cheese. It’s horrible. It’s like calling a McDonald’s burger a “steak.” The two are nominally made from cow, but that’s about where the comparison ends.
ky
right now i am eating a bowl of my chili with a little bit of white cheddar melted on top and a little homemade hot sauce i get from a coworkers grandmother in grenada. burns your lips but has a full punch of flavor.
it has been almost two years since my first bottle of this hot sauce. i now have her making me five to ten bottles at a clip. after the hurricane i was concerned that they were in some trouble but my buddy assured us they were ok. i did convince him to charge us quite a bit more than shipping and handling to help get our producer back up and running. all is better now and the sauce is as good as ever.
Get me that hot sauce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (though I can’t imagine any hot sauce tasting better than simple tabasco red)