Review: Delicious!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 7, 2013
I find myself enjoying books and doing reviews. I’ve done both fiction and nonfiction. I ordered a copy of Simply Delicious Vegetable Soups. You have to understand why this book was an important book to me. I only eat chicken, fish and turkey. I am somewhat of a vegetarian but not quite. I have a daily diet of smoothies in the morning or all day until 4pm. After 4pm I can eat what I want. This diet makes me feel good, look slim and function energetically all day. Not to mention the benefits that psychological feeling of controlling what goes into my body. This book was necessary. I started looking through the book and just analyzing the different ingredients in my head. The look of the type and all that crap that we start to look at when we start to become critics of books and things. But this is not that kind of book and the real purpose here is the recipes. How are the soups? How would they taste? So I decided to push my normal diet aside and just have soup all day. By the way, I am no chef. I also decided that I would share my soup diet with my children and their mother. Unwilling participants, very resistant. I declared the entire house would go on a soup fast in my crazy experimental world. I decided to start with the pumpkin soup. Why because I never knew what a pumpkin was really for other than a pie. I made it all by myself. The rebellious family of mine decided to have nothing to do with my soup making. Through a series of hard fought negotiations and threat of being kicked out, it was agreed that soup would come before dinner and lunch and that I would make just enough for myself. Well I decided to have pumpkin soup for breakfast. Even though my own family laughed at me, they became quite curious as they watched me savior the smell of it and happily ingest the smooth orangey looking soup.  The smile on my face and the smell of the onion and butter mix was just too much for them to stand. They decided to join me. Before long, all my soup was gone. A hearty kiss from grateful wife this morning. An enthusiastic ‘that was good Daddy’ and a gracious hug. That’s the true essence of a good soup. That’s the true essence of a good book. Tonight I’ll be making cream of spinach soup. I always fight with my kids to eat their vegetables. Maybe now the fight is over.