We usually do lunch and visit before we discuss the book. It has been foggy and cold so I decided to make my mom's potato soup and serve it in sourdough bread bowls. Yum! I ordered the bread bowls and made my yummy sugar cookies the day before. When I brought the bread bowls home the next day, I noticed they weren't cut! I called the bakery to see if they had given me the wrong order. They said there wasn't a note on the order and they weren't sure if they were supposed to cut them or not. Yikes! I only had a half an hour and I wasn't done with the soup!
Jason was working from home and offered to help. I didn't even have to ask! Love him!
Jason Rickards to the rescueI had also decided to make some Christmas Wassail. I had just made some the week before for our Relief Society progressive dinner and it was SO good. I put all the spices together in the morning to simmer and was going to add the juice right before everyone came. The spices are pretty chunky and have to come out before you add the juices. Well, I wasn't thinking because I was thrown off by the bread bowls not being ready and I strained all my spices that had been simmering all morning, right down the drain!
My mom came early and offered to finish up the soup while I remade the wassail. It was kind of funny how crazy it was because I felt totally ready all morning. I put the potatoes in the oven at 8am! I was totally prepared! Now here we were 15 minutes before, still making soup, cutting bread bowls and trying to make wassail that really should simmer for a few hours. (It never really did turn out.)
My mom finishing up the soup (It starts in a pan and goes to a pot. It really is soup!)We actually were just finishing up when the first person came! Not bad timing!
Jason finished the bread bowls, the soup was yummy...
and the company was fantastic! Thanks mom and Jason for saving me! And thanks to my book group for another fun get together!
and the company was fantastic! Thanks mom and Jason for saving me! And thanks to my book group for another fun get together!
3 comments:
Gotta love having family around to save your bacon! Glad it all came together. Your house looks so beautiful in all of these pictures too. I miss you! Wish I could have been there! Potato Soup in Sourdough Bread bowls sounds DELICIOUS! I've been craving sourdough bread CONSTANTLY and can only find it every once in awhile! Bummer
Hey Tara,
Thanks for the fun time at your house. The soup was so yummy on that freezing cold day. The cookies were to die for. I want one right now. Oh, and talking about the book was fun too.
It's always about the food.
It doesn't matter how prepared you are and how much you plan things, so inevitably always goes wrong. It looked great though and I bet no one could even tell.
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