Just Souper!

Today I woke up and decided it was time to make enough soup to last me until the campaign* is over. So, a quick list and trip to the Jungle, and I was in business. I made 4 different recipes of soup today, no bowl contains more than 250 calories, 5 grams of fat, and each bowl contains less than 100mg of cholesterol. Part of the New Year's resolution? Not really...more part of the daily regimen I've adopted, and a way to procrastinate from grading IA's but still feel like I'm accomplishing something. Don't worry seniors, the IA's will be graded by January 3rd...I just haven't brought myself to do it just yet.

The recipes included chicken tortellini (thank you, Mrs. Raabe), Italian Bolognese, Chicken vegetable, and Chicken Fajita. Here's what it looked like when I had three different pots going at once:



After all the recipes were able to cool a bit, they were then placed into the awaiting plastic containers. Here are said plastic containers waiting for their contents and then again after they've been filled with souptastic goodness:






After the soups had cooled a bit more, I added them to the freezer in the garage where they await consumption during the school year. I was able to make 30 different containers of soup and by my count, that means I won't need to restock again until February 16th. (which is actually kind of problematic b/c I'll be out of town that weekend and unable to restock for myself...so I'll probably make another batch at some point between now and then - it just won't be the extravaganza witnessed in my kitchen this afternoon.

Here's the full freezer:



Oh...I also made a lasagne.



*the campaign is the Pasta for Pennies campaign and I'll be speaking about that at length in an upcoming post and then referring to it ad naseum thereafter.

Yours truly...

I hate it when people use the word truly when speaking to me. I don't know why, but as soon as I hear it, I immediate think that the person is putting on affectations in order make me believe that they are being sincere. People who say the word as if their request should suddenly be honored because they have stated that they truly feel a certain way drive me crazy.

When someone says this term, it makes me feel like they are basically saying: "I am being truthful now, but normally when I speak to you or ask you for things... I lie." Or, the other way the term could be used to make me cringe would be when someone is trying to show their passion for a specific issue, as if that by stating that because they truly believe something means that I - and everyone else in the world - should believe the same thing.

In fact, I can't think of a single instance in my existence when I have ever heard the word used in a sentence when I've not applied a negative connotation to the word. To me, it sounds fake and it irritates me. I don't know why...perhaps there was some point in my life when someone promised me something truly and then it didn't happen...maybe I decided subliminally that the word was misleading...maybe it's the fact that I don't like the people in my life who normally use the word...maybe it's the fact that I just get irritated by stupid things, but I let them bother me enough I feel the need to tell others about it...even if only in a blog read by two other people who I'm pretty sure are bored with what I've put out there so far and won't keep stopping by unless I get a little more entertaining over here...

I don't know why...but the word drives me crazy...