when announcing this wednesday's activity i knew i wanted to make a huge pot of vegetable beef soup. there's a touch of fall in the air and soup felt just right. my mother makes a grand pot of vegetable beef soup and that's the memory i tapped into for what i cooked. there was always the dilemma.....eat the portion of beef allotted in the soup or have it on bread with ketchup! decisions, decisions! choices, choices!! growing up i finally got wise about this dilemma and enjoyed half of the beef in the soup and the other half on bread with ketchup. oh, how wonderful it was to have figured out how to have it both ways. mom's soup is still my favorite and i try to make mine taste just like hers.
because soup is much tastier when it's simmered for a long time i began the pot of soup on monday. it was early, obviously, but i couldn't bear to have half-ready soup to enjoy on whimsical wednesday. as it simmered and i savored and anticipated, i invited friends to enjoy soup with me for lunch. they enjoyed it just as much as i did. we had soup and talked and had a very pleasant few hours sharing together. they each took home a container to enjoy later. after all, when making soup it's always much tastier when there's a large batch simmering in a huge pot! mutton doggie enjoyed it as well because she was allowed to lick the bowls when we were finished. a neighbor just had surgery so homemade vegetable beef soup was packaged for that household as well. there's plenty left for me to have later and to put in the freezer for another time. this was a grand whimsical wednesday because i shared with others based on a warm memory of my mother that i could actually physically experience. for me, food is a genuine form of love.
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