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Been making soups all week now that I'm back from San Francisco.  It was an interesting trip.  Took super-pup Buster along with us for the first time.  Sweetie threw down some Regional upgrades and got us posted in first which made everything all better (for me).  The Boy did pretty good on the trip.  Who's a Good Boy?  The only thing that was odd was that on the way there and the way back there was an uncrated dog in the aisle right behind us.  Good Boy was not thrilled about that, but he dealt.  He barked a little during some turbulence, but it was pretty bad, so I don't blame him.  Other than that he was a real trooper.  I could see trying it again sometime.

Started the week with a Hungarian Mushroom soup that turned out pretty good.  It didn't make much so we ate all of that up Tuesday night.
Green Soup
Green Soup
The gremolata that goes with it
Wednesday, I needed some green soup and put together a hearty delight with broccoli and a butt-load of spinach that turned out pretty good.  It had a nice color to it and I made a gremolata to go along to sprinkle on top and that really put it over the, well, top.

Thursday night I pulled of a really decent split pea soup that sat on stove for well over five hours.  I love cooking like that.  Continually tasting, adjusting, adding.  Used smoked sea salt throughout the cooking process in lieu of any meat and I really think it did a nice job of not making it seem like a totally vegan dish, which it was.  It had the best texture.

For tonight's dinner we're going to have leftovers.  Too much green soup in the house and we should get rid of some so I can keep cooking.

Since there's nothing new, I'm making an order of Semolina Corn Bread to go with the soup.  Who doesn't like bread?

It goes like this:

1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup semolina
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup oil
2 Tbsp Parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp crushed garlic
1 Tbsp minced parsley.

Mix the dry ingredients.  Separately mix the wet and then combine just till, well, combined.  You already pre-heated the oven to 400, so stick them in when the light goes off and wait about 20 minutes and see if the center comes clean about the role it played in the slaying of your diet.

Update: Bread's only got about 5 minutes to go, I've been writing this while it backs, and it smells so good.  There may not be any when Sweetie gets home.
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