Healthy Heath

Dances with Soup February 17, 2011

Tonight was a dinner and a movie night with my good friend, Lindsay, who is also in AmeriCorps in Boulder this year. In her incredible brilliance, she decided to go for a themed night… Dances with Wolves and Three Sisters Soup. Yay for Native American nights!

We started off my chopping a lot of veggies. Peppers, onions, garlic. Measured out cups of kidney beans, lima beans and kernels of corn. A dash of thyme, a pinch of cumin, some salt and pepper, two bay leaves and six cups of vegetable broth later our soup was bubbling away.

Onwards to the dumplings: corn meal, whole wheat flour, eggs, milk, canola oil, salt and pepper. Making a rounded tablespoon apparently is not my forte. I am more prone to making a quadruple scoop rather than simply rounded. All that was left was to drop them in the broth, and then let them simmer for a bit.

In AmeriCorps, we may not be wealthy, we may not have a lot of free time, but when we make soup… it. is. EPIC.

Our dinner for two could have fed a small, nay, medium army.

Our soup was ment to look like this:

As seen from the Vegetarian Kitchen. Doesn’t it look scrumptious???

The Lindsay/Heather attempt wasn’t as pretty. The dumplings had melded together in a raft on the surface of the soup.  The soup itself burbled and bubbled like a mudpot in Yellowstone. Impressive sounds coming from a stock pot, to be sure.

It might not have looked pretty, but it sure tasted it!

A quick addition of swiss chard and cilantro gave our soup a healthy, green glow. It certainly went with our movie choice well.  The soup left me dancing… even when I had to leave Lindsay’s at intermission. The second half will have to be viewed at a later date!