Its been awhile, but not forgotten.
The last soupcycle happened as a small batch of pasta salad (too hot for soup!) last Sunday and it was the most gourmet I've ever made. ooh deelishishness.
I bought all of the ingredients at Madison Market, early on Sunday morning, sort-of as an expensive whim. Upon returning I spread out my bounty on the kitchen table, admired it for awhile and then went to town cutting olives, roma tomatoes, parsley, green onion, roasted red peppers, green peppers, and a bunch of other stuff that I can't remember right now...
Anyway, it all came together with Katie's expert chopping help and once it was all tossed and marinating in redwine vinagrette, we divided it into as many containers as we had (about 18 or so) and off with the bob and cooler we went.
It ended up being the shortest soupcycle ever since we live at the top of Jackson and a really long gradual hill leads straight to the International District, Pioneer Square, and other gathering places of the people we serve. After about 30 minutes, the salad was gone and we biked back home, satisfied with the morning.
I ate some that I had set aside for lunch and then headed out for a hike with friends.
Have I ever mentioned that soupcycle sundays are the best? Well, they are.
thanks katie, and thanks mad market for keeping your groceries fresh, organic, mostly local, and worth a pretty penny.
Next month, potato salad.
love, shelly
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Personals: New bike seeking bob's nuts. You won't be disappointed.
First, the last soupcycle was great!
It was a flurry of activity that morning when I realized the kitchen we normally cook from - CWB - was being used for a weekend-long event...but Mark graciously agreed to allow the explosion of pea soup to take over his apartment. Thanks to Mark for helping cook, and thanks Julia, for coming through at the last possible moment to cycle around the U-district and hunt down hungry people. We gave soup to more teens than we ever have, but found the U-district to be a little hostile in general. The highlight was giving soup to an exit ramp lady who was SO happy she practically hugged us.
The split pea recipe, from the lovely Emma, included hominy and sweet potato, plus a full bulb of roasted garlic. Totally delicious.
On Sunday the 31st we ride again, with a nutty soup in tow. Will be the inaugural soupcycle for my new bike! If you have any good recipes, want to ride around or want to donate ingredients, let me know. We'll most likely cook from my new casa in the Central District, and probably ride through the Intn'l District and Pioneer Square areas.
LOVE!
shelly
It was a flurry of activity that morning when I realized the kitchen we normally cook from - CWB - was being used for a weekend-long event...but Mark graciously agreed to allow the explosion of pea soup to take over his apartment. Thanks to Mark for helping cook, and thanks Julia, for coming through at the last possible moment to cycle around the U-district and hunt down hungry people. We gave soup to more teens than we ever have, but found the U-district to be a little hostile in general. The highlight was giving soup to an exit ramp lady who was SO happy she practically hugged us.
The split pea recipe, from the lovely Emma, included hominy and sweet potato, plus a full bulb of roasted garlic. Totally delicious.
On Sunday the 31st we ride again, with a nutty soup in tow. Will be the inaugural soupcycle for my new bike! If you have any good recipes, want to ride around or want to donate ingredients, let me know. We'll most likely cook from my new casa in the Central District, and probably ride through the Intn'l District and Pioneer Square areas.
LOVE!
shelly
Friday, April 24, 2009
we peas, green sea, sweet split, soup tea
split pea is on the menu for this sunday.
i still don't have a bike that works with the bob.
need to work on that.
ok, come help cook and be merry! bring your bike!
love, shelly
i still don't have a bike that works with the bob.
need to work on that.
ok, come help cook and be merry! bring your bike!
love, shelly
Monday, March 30, 2009
soouhp la la
More French Lentil this month. I think it is officially my favorite, both in terms of eating and cooking. I love this soup. And I think the public likes this soup too - its always very popular even though many people ask "What is lentil?" Hmmm.. its a small, nutritious bean, I say.
This month's soup cycle had a hitch, as is now customary for each time we do this...there's always something that gets f-ed up. It started because I sold the silver fancy bike that the bob trailer fit perfectly with, but I was very happily riding my little yellow motobecane for the month of March. I (stupidly) did not make an attempt to fit bob's nuts onto the yellow bike until the morning of soup cycle, after I had already bought all of my ingredients and they were safely tucked into the blue cooler, ready to be wheeled to south lake union and made into soup.
It started by taking the wheel off, in a non-quick-release way. Then, we proceeded to pull out the thinga-ma-jigger inside the wheel hub and after awhile a bunch of ball bearings fell out onto the floor in a greasy lump. nice.
looking at the hole for the yellow bike's wheel as compared with bob's nuts, the two were never going to work well together - a doomed relationship. A flawed stimulus package. A limp, and lame, situation.
The only solution was to load the ingredients into the car as Mark hopped on his bike and rode down to CWB. We cooked there as usual and Brian, bless his Irish soul, was there with bike and trailer, and ready to heat a delicious potato soup alongside our lentil operation. In the end it worked out because I had a meeting to be at and Mark and Brian biked the soup in his trailer, while I went to discuss matters much less interesting...
So HUGE thanks to Brian and Mark for cooking and biking, to Maya for donating money for ingredients, and to Ali for donating a hand blender (carried all the way from Pittsburgh).
The next step is to buy a new bike. sorry yellow, but i need one that works for bob.
love, shelly
This month's soup cycle had a hitch, as is now customary for each time we do this...there's always something that gets f-ed up. It started because I sold the silver fancy bike that the bob trailer fit perfectly with, but I was very happily riding my little yellow motobecane for the month of March. I (stupidly) did not make an attempt to fit bob's nuts onto the yellow bike until the morning of soup cycle, after I had already bought all of my ingredients and they were safely tucked into the blue cooler, ready to be wheeled to south lake union and made into soup.
It started by taking the wheel off, in a non-quick-release way. Then, we proceeded to pull out the thinga-ma-jigger inside the wheel hub and after awhile a bunch of ball bearings fell out onto the floor in a greasy lump. nice.
looking at the hole for the yellow bike's wheel as compared with bob's nuts, the two were never going to work well together - a doomed relationship. A flawed stimulus package. A limp, and lame, situation.
The only solution was to load the ingredients into the car as Mark hopped on his bike and rode down to CWB. We cooked there as usual and Brian, bless his Irish soul, was there with bike and trailer, and ready to heat a delicious potato soup alongside our lentil operation. In the end it worked out because I had a meeting to be at and Mark and Brian biked the soup in his trailer, while I went to discuss matters much less interesting...
So HUGE thanks to Brian and Mark for cooking and biking, to Maya for donating money for ingredients, and to Ali for donating a hand blender (carried all the way from Pittsburgh).
The next step is to buy a new bike. sorry yellow, but i need one that works for bob.
love, shelly
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
trailer envy
Thank yous all around for a great soup cycle this month.
Brian: thanks for making coffee, split pea soup, chopping garlic, bringing containers, bread and spoons, and for cycling around with me! It was a good day.
Scott: thanks for letting me borrow your big fancy pot.
Julia and Ryan: thanks for the cauliflower & use of the hand blender.
Jean: thanks for the beautiful organic broccoli.
Josh: thanks for chopping onions until we were all bleary eyed.
Merle: thanks for bringing containers.
Soccer people: thanks for showing me how the trailer is actually supposed to attach to the bike...
perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but when Brian and I were out cycling around I kept having issues with the bob coming off the spoke spike (?). Finally Brian bunjeed the sucker on and we didn't have any more problems. Turns out I was using the pin in the completely wrong way. Brian's trailer is a two-wheeler with a big vinyl platform to set things on -it seems a good deal sturdier than the bob. I also think my issue was not having a kick stand. When I wanted to stop and hand out soup it was really hard to keep the whole system upright with one hand.
The cool thing was that lots of people are really interested in the trailers. They ask lots of questions and I think perhaps see it as a way to haul their own stuff around. It would be cool if a local bike organization started a bike & trailer lending system to homeless and/or carless people, or really any people...hint, hint Bikery? http://www.thebikery.org/
Speaking of the Bikery, I'm headed over there tomorrow to see if my sweet little yellow bike can be salvaged. I currently have 4 bikes with the recent purchase of a rusty old cruiser (my new market bike that I'm going to fix up) and for someone in transition, thats just two too many bikes.
OK, back to the thesis paper. I would tell y'all about it, but it has nothing to do with soup or bikes. Sadly.
thank you again, everybody, for your love & support of this project.
shelly
Brian: thanks for making coffee, split pea soup, chopping garlic, bringing containers, bread and spoons, and for cycling around with me! It was a good day.
Scott: thanks for letting me borrow your big fancy pot.
Julia and Ryan: thanks for the cauliflower & use of the hand blender.
Jean: thanks for the beautiful organic broccoli.
Josh: thanks for chopping onions until we were all bleary eyed.
Merle: thanks for bringing containers.
Soccer people: thanks for showing me how the trailer is actually supposed to attach to the bike...
perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but when Brian and I were out cycling around I kept having issues with the bob coming off the spoke spike (?). Finally Brian bunjeed the sucker on and we didn't have any more problems. Turns out I was using the pin in the completely wrong way. Brian's trailer is a two-wheeler with a big vinyl platform to set things on -it seems a good deal sturdier than the bob. I also think my issue was not having a kick stand. When I wanted to stop and hand out soup it was really hard to keep the whole system upright with one hand.
The cool thing was that lots of people are really interested in the trailers. They ask lots of questions and I think perhaps see it as a way to haul their own stuff around. It would be cool if a local bike organization started a bike & trailer lending system to homeless and/or carless people, or really any people...hint, hint Bikery? http://www.thebikery.org/
Speaking of the Bikery, I'm headed over there tomorrow to see if my sweet little yellow bike can be salvaged. I currently have 4 bikes with the recent purchase of a rusty old cruiser (my new market bike that I'm going to fix up) and for someone in transition, thats just two too many bikes.
OK, back to the thesis paper. I would tell y'all about it, but it has nothing to do with soup or bikes. Sadly.
thank you again, everybody, for your love & support of this project.
shelly
Friday, February 20, 2009
let's talk soup
Did you not love that show (talk soup) when it was on a long time ago? I have no idea what happened to it since I left the world of TV ten years ago, but that show was hilarious back in the day.
OK, here's an update on soupcycle for this coming Sunday. So far it is me and Jean cooking soup in the CWB gallery, and joining forces with Zulu Brian who is cooking up his own batch. Julia and Ryan have graciously and unknowingly donated a head of cauliflower and the use of their hand blender while they are out of town. Thanks! The rest of the ingredients will be purchased using the remaining funds donated from my mom...but we could still use someone that is willing to dumpster for bread. We also need more containers. If you have any please drop them off in the CWB galley - there is a bag above the fridge just for this purpose.
Like always we'll start cooking at 10:00, cycle it around at 12:30 or so, and head over to the weekly soccer game around 2. Soupcycle Sundays always feel like perfect Sundays to me.
Alright - this was a very tame posting, but there's not much more to say. I just hope the sun stays with us like the last few days. Oh man, spring is almost here.
shelly
OK, here's an update on soupcycle for this coming Sunday. So far it is me and Jean cooking soup in the CWB gallery, and joining forces with Zulu Brian who is cooking up his own batch. Julia and Ryan have graciously and unknowingly donated a head of cauliflower and the use of their hand blender while they are out of town. Thanks! The rest of the ingredients will be purchased using the remaining funds donated from my mom...but we could still use someone that is willing to dumpster for bread. We also need more containers. If you have any please drop them off in the CWB galley - there is a bag above the fridge just for this purpose.
Like always we'll start cooking at 10:00, cycle it around at 12:30 or so, and head over to the weekly soccer game around 2. Soupcycle Sundays always feel like perfect Sundays to me.
Alright - this was a very tame posting, but there's not much more to say. I just hope the sun stays with us like the last few days. Oh man, spring is almost here.
shelly
Saturday, February 7, 2009
soup cycle invests!
Very exciting developments this evening...
1) mom sends generous check to soup cycle
2) super deal bob trailer found on craigslist
3) guy sells it for cheaper due to great cause
4) soup cycle now has its very own trailer!
...practically brand new, with a beautiful, shiny black coat of paint, and a silver fender.
So now, to talk about when she'll have her first soup-laden bumpy ride through the streets of Seattle.
Date: Sunday February 22nd.
Place: CWB Galley.
Time: 10:00 am to approx 2 pm
RSVP: post comment
What to bring:
See you there!
shelly
POTATO BROCCOLI SOUP
1) mom sends generous check to soup cycle
2) super deal bob trailer found on craigslist
3) guy sells it for cheaper due to great cause
4) soup cycle now has its very own trailer!
...practically brand new, with a beautiful, shiny black coat of paint, and a silver fender.
So now, to talk about when she'll have her first soup-laden bumpy ride through the streets of Seattle.
Date: Sunday February 22nd.
Place: CWB Galley.
Time: 10:00 am to approx 2 pm
RSVP: post comment
What to bring:
- Your bike
- Clean yogurt containers or other med-large sized containers with lids that fit.
- Soup-making ingredients (see recipe below for guidance, but feel free to add something else. I'm thinking of replacing the cheese with milk...maybe?)
- A hand-blender
See you there!
shelly
POTATO BROCCOLI SOUP
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 1/2 pounds peeled and cubed potatoes
- 5 cups boiling water
- 4 cubes veg bouillon
- 3 cups fresh broccoli, cooked and drained
- salt and pepper to taste
- 3 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
DIRECTIONS
- In a large stock pot saute onion in butter. Add potatoes, water and bouillon cubes. Cover, bring to boil and then reduce heat to medium and cook until potatoes are tender, about 15 minutes.
- Remove tough outer skin of broccoli stems and cook broccoli. Once cooked add to soup.
- In a blender or food processor puree half of the soup and return to stock pot. Season with salt and pepper.
- Add cheese and heat soup through until cheese is melted. Serve warm.
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