ASD or How it Started.

Out of the blue, Sally gave us an early Christmas present. Delighted and surprised, when we unwrapped the Christmas paper we found a wonderful book called,"The Soup Bible".
"I knew you'd love this book as I know you enjoy making soup" Sally said. And of course she was right.
So determined to use the book and n ot let it sit with the many other cook books we proclaimed that Wednesdays would now be ASD or Awesome Soup Day.  Mike would make a brand new soup, of course using "the Soup Bible, and Shirley would bake homemade bread . This would be a great lunch with a nice glass of wine and probably a small salad on the side. Good idea.

Green bean and parmesan soup

So last Wednesday we started. Mike prepared the green bean and parmesan soup while Shirley, chickened out with making the bread as we already had a loaf getting stale in the fridge.The new soup  turned out to be very nice and not difficult to make. It's always fun when you get the blender going to see if it will start to resemble soup as seen in recipe. We even found some fresh parsley, still growing to sprinkle on top.To that we added some home made coleslaw and a nice red wine and Bob's your uncle! Lunch.


Mike gave it a 10 ; I decided a 8 mainly because I found the texture of the cheese just a bit too gritty for my taste. 
Note to cook, get better parmesan cheese next time I think.
All in all, a good start. Fresh bread next time.