So yesterday we made a really good Pumpkin soup, but I want to take this day’s intro to talk about something that’s been bothering me recently during this soup month
It’s regarding a soup that I really wanted to make
Alphabet soup
I looked everywhere in stores nearby, and even online, and I could not find it anywhere
It’s like the soup doesn’t even exist!
And I know it does. I’ve had it when I was younger, and there even was a movie in the middle 90’s that had an entire scene about it
I mean look at this!
I was going to make some great alphabet soup, and I could do something fun with the letters because I’m doing writing about the soup. It could’ve been really meta and cool
But now I cannot make the soup
I found alphabet noodles for sale, but they’re located in Virginia, and that’s too far do drive to get them, so if I decide to order online delivery, it will be a while before I make that soup
Well keep an eye out I guess to see if I make it or not
So I think I’m going to use this opening section to talk about soups in different media. You can take the time to view yesterday’s minestrone if you’d like.
Since I used the instant pot, I still have some leftovers of it, and it was pretty good.
You know what else is pretty good? Super Mario Odyssey.
It was the first game I got on my Switch, and one of the first Mario games I played, because I didn’t grow up with Nintendo. Why am I talking about this game here in this soup post? Well, there’s a soup level in the game.
Technically it’s a kitchen/food level in general, but the big boss fight at the end is in a giant pot of soup, and you need to avoid all the vegetables and other ingredients to fight the big boss who is eating the soup.
It was a fun game, and there’s a lot of bonus stuff in it too. I still haven’t completed it 100% yet.
Have you played it before? Let me know what you think!
I recently watched the new Jurassic World movie. It was NOT good. I could barely pay attention and it’s kind of disappointing because the first Jurassic Park movie was really good.
Who doesn’t like seeing dinosaurs on the TV? But for some reason this new movie was just about giant locusts??
This isn’t a themed post about movies though, it’s about soup. If a movie has a scene with soup in it though, I’ll probably talk about it in a post.
Yesterday I made a personal recipe for Chicken and Rice soup that ended up being just a remake of chicken tortilla soup. It still tasted good, but it sort of wasn’t an original soup.
So I hope people reading yesterday’s miso soup recipe didn’t think it was “lazy” or “uninspired”.
I put a lot of thought into these soup recipes.
You try to come up with 30 different soup recipes and take the time to make them every day, and then take another hour or so to write about it, all while working around your regular hours at work. It’s hard stuff!
Today we’re going back to the basics, though. A bunch of ingredients, a pot, and some broth. Just a regular homemade soup.
Fifth day of September and we’re 1/6th of the way through the month. So many more soups to go, and yesterday’s soup, Chicken Tortilla, used a lot of ingredients. I’m sure there’s going to be some more soups with the same number of ingredients if not more, we’ll just have to wait and see.
I’m not yet sure what I want to do yet as a sort of “grand finale” when we hit the 30th soup. Should I rank them? Have the readers complete a poll and then write an extra post at the end as a recap for the month? I don’t know.
I know I want to do something, but if any of the readers here have any ideas once we hit the first of October, feel free to message me and let me know!
So with yesterday’s post, the Clam Chowder, I was honestly not too excited to make the next soup. I didn’t enjoy the result of the soup from yesterday, so it just put me down on cooking soup again, you know?
BUT I set out to make 30 soups for this month, so I’m not planning on backing out on day four. It’s certainly getting harder to cook every single day, but I’ll do it.
I have gotten some soup suggestions from some people reading these posts, and I appreciate them! I always enjoy when people tell me that they’re enjoying my posts so let me know your thoughts as we go through this month, and if you make any of these soups this month too let me know how it turns out!
Welcome to day two of the month of Souptember! Yesterday I made a delicious Chicken Noodle soup, and have plenty of meals left over from it.
I do want to address one thing, however. I realized today that I made a mistake when making the chicken noodle soup. It’s a mistake that I don’t want to do again, because it will become harder to continue the month if I do so.
I made way too much soup.
I know it’s not a bad problem, but I only have so much room in my fridge, and I could freeze some soup but I only have so much containers for leftovers too.
I mean look at this
This is leftovers from just one soup. If I were to follow the same process with all the soups I cook this month, I’ll be out of space on day 4. I can’t cook that much anymore.
So from here on out, I will have to better portion my ingredients. No more meals made for eight people when I’m living by myself. Lower the soup level to one.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get on to day number two of Souptember.