Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Secret smoky flavor in the soup!

I decided to step out of the box tonight and tried cooking a new recipe for dinner. My beautiful cousin, Liz, posted a few new tasty recipes on her blog that I was dying to taste. Since my husband is sick, I thought her vegetable soup would satisfy him perfectly! It took me a lot longer than I thought it would (which is usually the case when you try something new) to make. Part of the recipe called for 4 cups of chicken stock. I thought that meant chicken broth-- the powder broth. I thought, wow 4 cups is a lot, I will put just under a cup in. But then I realized the soup was not very soupy... so I had to keep adding water. When Steve got home, he said "It smells like something is burning in here!" I was a little annoyed because I had been "slaving" over making dinner for about an hour and a half at that point. But I said nicely, "yeah I think I burned the soup a little earlier but it still smells from that." So we sat down to eat our lovely dinner. Steve took his first bite and said "This is good... it tastes kind of strong though. How did you get the smoky flavor?" I said, I think it tastes that way because I burned it a little bit. It still tasted pretty good. But I told him how weird it was that it called for 4 cups of the chicken stock powder. HIS EYES GOT HUGE! He said, "You put FOUR cups of chicken broth powder in it???" I told him, no, almost a cup though. Is that bad?? He started laughing and said, "Uh, I think that is why you had to keep adding water to it. You were supposed to add the broth, like out of the can!" We both started laughing at that point! When we went to put the soup into tupper ware after dinner, steve got to the bottom of the pan and saw that it was COMPLETELY BLACK! Not only was it black, but it was moving. Our eyes got huge and then he karate chopped in with the spoon and broke into about a centimeter of black burnt soup! So, that is my secret to giving soup a yummy charcoal flavor!!! ha ha! 

12 comments:

  1. I am crying with laughter right now!! I am seriously wipping tears from my face. That is the best smokey flavor soup recipe I have ever heard of!! I especially love that Steve karate chopped it :) Way to go Steve, protect your family from the attack of the smokey soup!! ha, ha, ha, ha, I can't stop laughing!! There are great visuals going on in my head right now!! ha, ha, ha, hee!!!

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  2. Oh. MY. GOSH. Are you kidding me? When I told you what chicken stock was... well I never would have guessed that you would have interpreted it that way. I'm with Brianne... seriously... I'm laughing so hard I'm crying!!! That was priceless.

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  3. Erin, didn't your sweet mom teach you how to cook? That was so funny!! I know we've all learned some lessons when cooking new recipes or using new ingredients--yes, we've all been there at one time or another. But that was hi-larious!

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  4. Erin, this one made me laugh hard!! Seriously??? 4 cups??? hahahahaha!! hahahahaha!!! Still laughing!!!!!!!

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  5. That's my girl!!! I so know how that feels, to slave over something and have it turn out, um, smokey :) That was hilarious. Thanks for the good laugh!

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  6. Thats awesome! You for sure get the E for Effort though!! Congrats on the little bambino/bambina headed your way!!

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  7. Oh! I'm glad I'm not the only one, but the good thing is that you never make the same mistake twice..too bad I bet Steve will miss the "Smoky" flavor.

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  8. That was priceless, thank you for sharing.

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  9. Oh. My. Gosh. Erin. You are killing me!!!!! I love you to death!

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  10. Erin. I was sorry to hear about your soup disaster, as this occurs almost every time I step into the kitchen. Those recipes are so DANG confusing. Anyway, my real point of posting is to find out WHO the two guys are that you went on the hike with? You've got a picture with them. Are they single? Can they be lined up? I'll need ages, height, etc., OR if you know others, please let me know as I am trying to marry off over 14 girls in 2009. Your cooperation in this matter is greatly appreciated.

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  11. Oh my gosh, I am cracking up!! I tried making chicken enchilada soup for Jacob one night - it was a disaster! I was slaving away for like 2 hours and the soup turned out so horrible we couldn't even eat it! It was the yuckiest soup I had ever tasted and I made this huge pot so we just dumped it out and I was so sad about it. The recipe was so funky and called for mexican flour and I don't know how to work with mexican flour. Your story made me laugh so hard!!! Soup should be easier to make dang it! :)

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