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Thalia pulled a bowl from the bottom shelf and enchanted the well-worn ladle from the clutter of a utensil drawer run amok.
Calliope removed the soup pot’s lid, cranked the pepper mill a few rounds, and gave stir.
“Not yet!” Urania scolded the hungry duo. “The flavors have yet to fuse.”
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Muse approved: Super Easy Pantry Tomato Soup
T-shirt: “If you feed your kids frozen pizza or chicken nuggets for dinner, you’re a lousy parent. I don’t care HOW busy you are — microwave it first!” 😁
Leftover soup or stew is the best. At times I've asked Deb what she'd like for dinner and she counters with, "Do we have any leftovers still?"
...”enchanted the well-worn ladle.” At first I suspected AI auto-correct had struck again. After a search, however, I realized the usage had merit. And if anyone could enchant a ladle, Thalia would be the one!
Rousseau’s remark captures today’s message to a “T.”
I chuckled at your proffered tomato soup recipe. 🤣 Okay; guffawed. I was reminded of the recent expansion of food labeling requirements. “Lobster bisque: contains lobsters. Milk: contains milk. Peanut butter: contains peanuts.” Let’s not forget elephant dung coffee beans! “Does not contain elephants.”
Sorry Cal if I trampled your sensibilities. 😔 I seem to suffer from the same blurt-it-out syndrome as Tal on certain days. 😬
I started to suggest lobster bisque as a tomato soup alternative. Well, there’s the business of shellfish allergies for one thing. Second, the recipe from “Serious Eats” jumps right in with the instructions for killing the four poor live lobsters you just carted home from Maine! Oops, I meant the seafood market. Let’s scratch that ill conceived idea!
Whatever you finally ladle out of your stock pot, may it warm your insides and free your feet. Boot scooting. Snowshoeing. Cart wheeling. Snowman building!