Friday, May 25, 2012

Memorial Day and Asparagus Soup



This being the cusp of the national Memorial Day holiday, officially to honor people who died in wars, but functionally a weekend for picnics, opening of the beach season here in NJ, I usually try to find something appropriate to do that doesn't glorify war, but does remember the people.

So this weekend, since I'm already walking the labyrinth in honor of the father of a friend, who left us just a few hours ago, I'll add in the intentions for the war dead. He was old enough to have remembered all the major wars, so it was part of his life, too.

Then on the frivolous food side, I decided to continue the tradition Handsome Partner and I had, of eating Bad Food for the Holidays. We ate, well I still do, very healthy stuff, no red meat, plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, whole grain bread baked at home and so on. So a couple of times a year we would bust out. Hot dogs and rolls, potato chips, pickles, mustard, ketchup. Wonderful when you only have them a couple of times a year.

But before the Bad Food breaks out, today was Asparagus Soup day, using the rest of this week's farm share of asparagus, with homemade vegetable stock, and a bunch of croutons from homebaked bread, tossed in olive oil, pepper and salt, and served sizzling into the bowl. Much more where that came from, too. A couple more quarts in the freezer now. I only seasoned the soup with salt, since I didn't want to drown out the flavor with my usual mad shakes of spices. The big pot was a wedding present from HP's mother, back in early 1963, has a steamer top and lid, too, and has been used almost daily ever since. I must have made a vat of soup in it.

Happy Weekend to everyone! Good opening of the summer to them it refers to, sorry, people in Oz and NZ..

4 comments:

  1. When I saw pic of soup in pot, my immediate thought was, boy does that pot ever look familiar. Thought it was one of Mam's but I guess similar vintage.
    Have a good weekend...we had ours last week..Queen Vicky's BD dontchaknow...

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  2. You can't beat a good pot for making soup or the soup that comes out of it. Definitely soup weather in my neck of the woods and DH is particularly good at making it. Enjoy yours and your holiday weekend. Ours is next weekend in honour of HM of course.

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  3. What a beautiful colour that soup is! And the homemade croutons just the right topping, too. I am also a soup maker, all kinds of it, wonderfully healthy bowls of goodness. Your pot looks well used & well loved. We don't have a Memorial Day here in Canada, but observe 11 Nov., Remembrance Day. I wonder - will you thaw a bowl of asparagus soup in Nov. and remember not only the civilian and war dead, but how the labyrinth felt back in May? - Jean from Cowtown

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  4. That looks so good!! I would be willing to bet it would taste just as good served cold.

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