A friend brings me Chicken Soup (Chx Soup part 2) blog post Sunday, 4/5/20, Palm Sunday



Chicken Soup part 2 blog post Sunday, 4/5/20, Palm Sunday

Oh my sweet stuff.

I had drawn a pic about chx soup for B. I ended up writing a blog post about my own cooking mess and shared to FB.

Then came a msg from a friend. She was making chx soup to be ready in about 3 hours. She wanted to bring me some. (And she'd been making it w 7 year old granddaughter.) I told her I'd make a drawing for the child - what subject? A kitty cat. I've done the cat cooking the soup. It's printed out but I'll email too. It's hanging in my mail slot. They're on their way . Should be here any minute.

Soo nice and now I feel so much better about our mess going on in the world right now. This is special but even more so because of this 'storm'.

Well, she left me a whole care package bag. The lovely soup in a big jar. In the bag was also all the fixings to make another soup:

Canned chicken, (like canned tuna).

2 onions

Baggies of cut up baby carrots and celery

And

1 tomato

2 oranges

2 apples, (1 green, 1 red)

4 snack boxes raisins

Sleeve of crackers

1 pkg shitaki stuff to make some dish w an egg

1 package to make a serving miso soup

A container of yellow cake w gooey pink frosting

Jar of strawberry preserves

2 little serving cups of frozen strawberries, (except I did not realize they'd been frozen - I'll have to figure out something to make with them in the morning)

To have some of the soup, I had to work really hard at scraping my burned pot. My other little pot is buried under so much stuff in the dish drainer all threatening to crash down as a house of cards.

The thick black crust did come off the pot with just the spatula, salt, and elbow grease.

I've had a serving of soup. Delicious. But at this point just hot water would have been delicious, being so touched by the whole act.

My cat cooking chicken soup drawing - they had not collected. I'll send by email. I made it into a 4 up post card layout and a frenchfold notecard. E had said her granddaughter had been so excited about getting a drawing by a 'real' artist. (Thank goodness she wanted a kitty cat drawing!)

The experience was so heartwarming and full of feeling connected with others. And, so good to whip up a drawing for someone and quickly put into a form that others can use. There are of course low tech ways to do this - just draw on a piece of paper! Remember how wonderful to draw on a real slate blackboard with chalk? Or on pavement,

Soo nice and now I feel so much better about our mess, (the world). This is special but even more so because of this 'storm'. There is so much to be done.

Dancing - quickie drawings animated gif, 4/4/20

Attempting to upload a gif I made. It does not work in FB.
We’ll see about here! Yay! It seems to be working.

Chicken soup. (Misadventure), 4/01/20

I advised someone to make chicken soup:

".....Yes - that is great if you have the chicken broth. Throw in some spaghetti broken into little bits, or rice, or just over a couple slices toast. Just the canned is good though. If you have any veggies in the freezer that you can throw in there, fine - that's a bonus.

But most important is to have some. It is a comfort that will help."

Well I tried to make some with pasta and broccoli last night - just one serving. I fell asleep at my table while the pot cooked. Just browsing in the computer and listening to a radio talk show, with the voices droning easily knocks me out. When I woke it was late, and then I remembered the poor 'soup', which had long since stopped being a soup. It was not a smoking pot, but had a thick, I assume, black crust underneath. A glue like skin with large holes across the top, then perhaps two inches of empty space until the boiled down mish-mash. I put a couple slices of cheddar cheese on this mess and ate whatever was not burned. Salty and sour. The lemon juice ratio was way off for the quantity this dish had boiled down to. Mustard proportion was way off too. One could hardly tell that the broccoli had been broccoli.
And my little serrated knife has gone missing. I used it last to cut cheese for the 'mess'.