A Very, Very Big Bowl of Soup
June 11, 2010
This is what we are going to have for dinner tonight. Hannah and I, I mean.
One of few things I like when Rob is away is that I can cook something that hardly takes any effort and yet is good enough. Hannah happens to like this chicken and sweet corn soup and I thought, why not.
I knew I would be very busy on Friday, doing the paper round, and driving Hannah to her gymnastic class after school which would hardly leave me enough time to cook when we get back. The driving takes about 20-25 minutes (depending on traffic) and the class lasts for an hour. I usually stay in the parking lot with Pig dozzing off next to me in the car, and sometimes either with a book in hands or these days, knitting kits. I like to have early dinners and so I carefully plan everything in advance.
I had a spare time yesterday afternoon, after shovelling the mulch off the neighbour’s yard to cover the holes Pig has been digging, and I decided to make the soup. I thought I wouldn’t have enough time to do my own soup (yes, originally I was going to do Hungarian Bean Soup for my dinner) so I used all the two sweet corns I bought, one chicken breast and they all made it in one big bowl!! It’s enough to feed 4 or 5 people!
Anyway, one thing left I need to do is just bake the bread rolls. And I have managed to squeeze doing it this morning and so they’ll be ready for dinner tonight, fresh from the oven!
Nothing beats the freshly baked rolls you make yourself with a very, very big bowl of soup in a cold chilly night!
