One of the fundamental ideas we try to teach at the Cafe, is outlined in a short video about the Cafe on our church website at www.hesattheavenue.com. following question is asked; what can you do with what you have? Or, how we cook at the Cafe, is all about working with what we have, not with what we would like to have.
So, yesterday, we decided that a soup would be on the lunch menu.
Along with Homemade Buttery Biscuits. One variety was a Rosemary-Garlic and the other was Zested Orange Rind and Black Pepper. Very tasty. I use this basic recipe with the above mentioned adaptations:
http://www.marthastewart.com/316713/flaky-buttery-biscuits
Back to the Soup!
We served a Black Bean - Bacon - Meatball - Shredded Carrot - Onion Soup.
Using up whatever we had on hand. A member of one of the churches in my former parish made the following remark to me as I was describing what we do at the Cafe. She said, you are cooking the way my mother did. Using whatever you had on hand.
One of my grandmothers once laughed and said to me when I asked how she made such a great soup, "Soup is whatever is in the fridge, silly."
The soup was very well received. One man who I did not think would eat it said, different but Good.
Food Banks have lots of beans available to give away and this soup was another example of teaching how to make a soup with the beans that can be found at the Food Bank or at your grocery store.
In sharing food we share life. Jesus Christ came and shared our lives and shared food with his followers. We now have the privilege to do the same. The blessings that can flow are truly life altering if we allow them to be.
Enjoy! Find Life!
