Titus Women Soup Night

Last night we had our Titus Women meeting and it was wonderful! A dear lady led us through making four different soups from scratch and we enjoyed some there and brought home two jars each to share with our families. It was a a time of fellowship, discussion and silliness while learning such a valuable skill. Unfortunately my camera died last night and I was unable to get any pictures but I would like to share Eunice's notes on soup making that she gave us.

Here they are....

1. Put on Praise and Worship music and thank God for all the pretty veggies!
2. Use a good quality soup base for broth. Check the sodium.
3. When saving a carcass (or bone) for making soup later - keep any leftover gravy, skin etc. Pieces of meat are best put in a Ziploc bag and frozen separately. Any meat boiled with the bones to make broth are pretty tasteless so keep a little good bits for the soup later.
4. Bones add calcium and phosphorous to soup.
5. You may throw a bit of veggies in with the bones for broth especially half dead carrots, celery etc. with the bad parts snipped off.
6. Dump all the bones and veggies after using them for broth. They have given their lives for the broth. add fresh meat and veggies.
7. Turkey and chicken soup typically have rice or noodles as the carbohydrate. Beef soups have pot or pearl barley. Tomato based soups often have a pasta. Some for example broccoli or cauliflower use potatoes.
8.Frequently garnish soups. Squash soup use pumpkin or sunflower seeds. Broccoli or Cauliflower use grated cheese and/or a sprinkle of dill weed/curry/nutmeg. Seafood chowders use fish crackers. A dollop of sour cream and some chopped green onions also looks good on top of some soups.

Our thanks to Eunice for teaching us so much and for leading such a fun meeting!
Thank you as well to my friend Lisa who was such a big help before hand with all the details and who came early to help set up as well as baking cookies for coffee time. Thank you as well to my sister Leanne who came early to help with everything to spite having a horrible toothache. I am blessed to have such wonderful friends!

Blessings,
Liisa