Awesome soup #7 Beef Noodle Soup.

Just the description of this soup, let alone the photo, makes you want to try it.

“Offer your fortunate friends or family a steaming bowl of this soup packed with delicious flavors of the Orient”

Yes, the flavors were delicious- ginger, egg noodles, sirloin steak, spinach, sherry, soy sauce and a few others as well. Mike says it called for porcini mushrooms but he couldn't get those in any of his local shopping places  so substituted regular mushrooms.

With the soup Mike made a very creamy coleslaw and we pre -opened a bottle of Californian Turning Leaf pinot noir to go with the meal.

Then our friends Joe and Sally came to try out our soup , bearing a lovely bouquet of deep red/mauve carnations and a bottle of Veo Grande Chilean wine . Thanks S & J.

Well this week's soup was deemed excellent by all. It was spicy , but not too spicy, very tasty and definitely had a feel and the look somehow of Chinese food I thought. The texture suited everyone and we all said this was really a 10 and we would definitely use this recipe again.

This week I tried to make bread sticks like they serve at the Olive garden. I should have known better. The photo that came with the recipe was not inspiring. The bread sticks tasted just fine, hot and buttery, but looked more like bread planks because they had spread sideways .

Note to myself :remember rising dough spreads sideways as well as upwards and bread sticks need some kind of mold at rise and bake in to get to the required shape.

To make up for the flat bread sticks I produced a peach pie and ice cream to go with coffee and I can say we had a great #7ASD.

All in all, it was a lovely meal. The conversation was fun and interesting as it always is with S & J and ranged from future fun vacation getaways to selling and buying exotic cars. Something for everyone. Thanks for coming S & J.