Stone Soup

If you make it, make it good

                                             (Midori)


Well it's friday(Woo Hoo!) and payday(Woo Hoo!). Maybe you are unemployed though. Maybe you just aren't getting the hours you'd like, or maybe that raise is on hold until the banks decide to lend money again. Don't be depressed, stretch those dollars with the magic of stone soup! Woo Hoo! stone soup. All you need is a pot and a large clean stone to make a party in your mouth.

Praise be the soup!

That stone soup friday was pretty good, so think how great soup can be if you use organic ingredients instead of stones? It doesn't have to be hard either. Today's Sunday. Time to visit friends, time to indulge our spiritual yearnings, ( I said yearnings, I said it. Just because I'm an agnostic doesn't I don't want to believe in a higher power. It just means I don't want the higher power to be some creepy omnipotent kid like from Twilight Zone or Star Trek. Creepy kids are as believable as all our other myths.) and time to go to Al's Diner and get a rocking breakfast. Mmmmm... Al's. Steak and cheese omelet, beans and jumbo english muffin please. Oh yeah, hold the creepy kid...

If we're talking omnipotent beings we should take a more traditional approach. Now get up, clap your hands and embrace the fantasy. Hey, you never know! (Agnostics, having it both ways for 2000 years!)


It's a party for Jesus! Throw in a steak and cheese omelet and you can feel the spirit take you. You can also feel your Sunday slipping away as you try to shoehorn all the stuff you didn't do during the week into one day.(Didn't we used to have 2 day weekends?) Breakfast was the big score today so dinner is going to be simple and easy.

SnowDay!

Here in New England the 24 hour news cycle always yields to a snowstorm. Brave news corespondents tape at the very edge of snow filled streets braving the cold and spray from the plows. People hunker down in their homes surrounded by there loved ones, or the loaves of bread and gallons of milk they obtained in in a Lord of The Flies pre-storm frenzy. I mock the prepared at my own Karmic risk from the safety of my den. Do not do the same in a crowded Market Basket when a snow emergancy has been declared. It's snowy and cold in February in New England. How would we manage if a highly paid television personality didn't tell us what to do?

Well I didn't watch the news this morning, so I looked out the window. February, check! Snowy, check! Cold check! I'd guess I'd better dress warmly if I have to go out, stay off the roads, and stay in if possible. Oh yeah, and run to the supermarket to get as much bread and milk as I can possibly stuff into a shopping cart. Wait, the folks that do watch the news have already cleaned everything from the shelves. I guess I'll have to hit my own pantry to survive.

Chowder, now that's what I'm talking about! A cold winter's day screams Chowder! Sadly, I do not have any clams about so we have to go with plan B. Yep, there is a one pound block of haddock in the freezer. What else do I have? Hmmm? Got an onion, no salt pork or bacon (Mmmmmm bacon) but I do have a fatty piece of ham, 3 potatoes, salt, pepper, butter (Mmmm butter) a celery stalk, flour and some Half and half. We're good to go. (If I didn't have fish a can or package of corn would do. Remember, we're cooking, not following recipes.)