I'd like for folks to post on here more so this is my last attempt at getting participation before it gets pathetic. Tell a story. Doesn't matter what. History doesn't have to be serious, in fact, it's often quite hilarious. Let's give meaning to unsubstantial so the lofty weight of creating a legacy is lifted just a little bit. I'll tell you some stories this week...
This is the most governmental soup I could find. I've never made it but it sounds pretty delicious. I broke it down to vegan again but feel free to adulterate it to your hearts desire....
U.S. Senate Bean Soup
[adapted from the Joy of Cooking aka the Bible]
1 1/4 cups dried white beans such as navy or Great Northern
[if cooking dry beans isn't in your time frame, feel free to use canned and double the amount]
1 large onion, diced
3 medium stalks of celery, chop with leaves
1 large potato, peeled and finely diced
1 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
salt and pepper
** the recipe calls for a ham hock. you can use a ham hock or you can use fake ham or you can use a teaspoon or two of molasses. I usually use molasses and a bit of sugar to get a similar flavor. Get creative!
Optional:
Serve with garlic toasts and parmesan
garlic
olive oil
margarine
crunchy baguette, sourdough works well
--If you are using dry beans, go ahead and soak them ahead of time. Afterwards, drain them and place them in 7 cups cold water. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to a simmer. Cook until the beans are tender, about 1 1/4 hours. If you are using a ham hock, include this in the boiling process.
--Add your onion, celery, potato, garlic and chopped meat/fake meat/fake meat seasoning to the pot. This will simmer until the potato becomes soft, about 20 to 30 minutes.
-- When soup is cooked to desired consistency, use either an immersion blender, regular blender or an old fashioned potato masher to blend half of the soup.
--Stir in parsley, salt and pepper to taste and heat to desired temperature.
If you are making the garlic toasts:
--Thinly slice baguette and bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350F until toasted. These will cook quick!
--Brown minced garlic in olive oil on stovetop. Mix with margarine and spread on toasts.
I think you know how to shred parmesan... Enjoy!
Great show tonight, minus the 20 minutes of tech difficulties in the beginning. Hit 15 tonight and it stayed at 15 for most of the show. Thanks for hanging out!
2 comments:
I can't wait to hear your show tonight, lil' buddy. So here's a little story: yesterday I got in a fight on Facebook with one of my Mormon cousins. She had posted something about how she wasn't watching the inauguration because she was enjoying her last moments of "not being a socialist". I tried to ignore it (she is family, after all), but for whatever reason I decided to comment about it. I wrote something really inoffensive about how Obama is a center-left politician and certainly not a socialist, and how she could probably benefit from reading up on the difference (if anything, it would give her more sufficient ammo to get in fights with non-conservatives. I mean, she's family - if she's going to be crazy and conservative, I at least want her to be able to defend her politics with some sense of reality).
So then all of her young little scary Mormon friends attacked me and started babbling incoherently about how "believing" in "socialistic" plans for the economy is the same thing as being a socialist, and blah blah Obama's going to nationalize everything in the country, FDR wasn't as good a president as everyone thinks, blah blah blah. I guess I should have tried to fight back, but I figured that stupidity loves company, and that I probably wouldn't succeed in doing anything other than pissing myself off. Also, Dick Cheney was in a wheelchair at the inauguration and I was feeling a little magnanimous.
So that's that. See you tonight, friend.
Wow, this soup really exists outside of the bargain bin @ the grocery? So, I was grocery shopping a few months ago and in the clearance bin, low and behold... I found a can of U.S. Senate bean soup. I found it completely hilarious and cheap! Of course, I bought it for it was the only one there, a rare collectors item - i thought. With the Capitol building on the front label and ingredients on back- pork and beans...all i could think was pigs and stink. It now sits as trophy on my shelf ... While I have been curious to open it, I can surely guarantee it tastes better fresh and vegetarian modified. I hope it brought as much delight as it brought me. Happy Obama and what not...
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