journal entry:
I signed up to bring soup. So did many others. People love soup. They love their own soup. I made the soup I love. Absolutely love. It is tomato. First of all I thought about what to put it in. Once it was made. And hot. Back and forth I went between the pan and the crock pot. Back and forth. Then I thought about the pumpkin. I had never put anything in a pumpkin before. Except a candle. I decided to get festive. In the spirit of things, this is what I did:
- Put a pan on the stove
- Poured three cans of Progresso Tomato Parmesan with Basil soup into the pan
- Drained a can of diced tomatoes and poured them into the pan
- Heated everything to HOT
- Picked a pumpkin from the porch
- Cut a lid and cleaned all of the seeds and pulp out of the pumpkin and lid
- Wrapped some metal leaves around the stem (from my craft stash)
- Tied a ribbon around the stem, over the leaves
- Made a little sign on the computer so people would know what they were eating if they tasted my soup
- Poured the HOT soup into the pumpkin
- Cradled it carefully in the car and drove to the Church
- Put it on the soup table
- Poured a full bag of croutons on the top of the soup
- Poured a LOT of Parmesan cheese over the croutons
- Put the ladle in and the lid back on top
Sometimes the simplest things are the best. This is a wonderful, tasty way to make a robust tomato soup in just minutes. It is a very rich red and looks vibrant in the orange pumpkin shell. Some brought rolls. Some dessert. All the “soup people” brought soup they thought should be in a Martha Stewart magazine. Whoops. So did I !
“Soup’s On”
What a fun idea! I bet it was delicious!