Rebuilding the Dike

  • Oct. 2nd, 2010 at 1:31 PM
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Okay, enough of my whining.

So, it's gotten cold all of a sudden (Oops), and that means that it's soup making time. Usually, I lie in wait until my mom or grandmother makes chicken soup and then down the stuff until I feel ready to explode. This time, however, feeling inspired, I decided to make my own. It also had the awesome side effect of warming up the house, so now I'm not so cold.

My grandmother acted as supervisor, and going around the kitchen and getting things while I was chopping/dicing. In the middle of all this, my dad comes down to make brunch for himself and my mom. This included sacrificing one of the chicken breasts I was going to use for the soup. My grandmother decides to escape (our kitchen is pretty small).

So, I'm chopping vegetables and chicken, waiting for the water to boil, and my dad is also darting around the kitchen making salad and broiling the chicken breast. And then he goes and uses my now-boiling water to make a soft boiled egg for my mom. (Yeah, I know that it's a good use of time and space, but that means that I can't thow in the chicken for the soup until the egg's done. And you can't bring along the fox with the chickens or else he'll eat them, and you can't bring the chickens over with the wheat or else...)

As the soup's going, I take periodical sips of the broth, to see what needs to be added. Every time, the broth seems...off, so I go and add something else. First time, it was salt. Next, tumeric. Once the soup had a chance to boil for a bit, it tasted pretty good, but it still needed something. By this time, my grandmother had reentered the kitchen.

Me: I think I added too much tumeric. Everything's all yellow.
Grandma: You're not supposed to add tumeric. Add oregano.
Me: ...?
Grandma: Every time I make soup, I make sure to add oregano.

Sure enough. that's what it needed. It's a running gag, by the way. Every time my cooking tastes off, a bit of oregano fixes everything.

In other news, I think I'm going to do that Thirty Days of Gaming meme. If only to have more times to post icons with Ashelia B'nargin DalMASca!

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