Making chicken soup this home-alone afternoon,
off the cuff after reviewing my '09 request for DU C&B Group suggestions.
Had a leftover carcass, picked up carrots & dill at grocery store yesterday (after waiting in LONG line,) so began a few hours ago, after discovering NO ONION in the house! 
Not to be deterred, I head to grocery store, discover its CLOSED!, imagine that!
Another car in the lot, I'd volunteered to check the open/closed status, told the woman driver I'd hoped to pick up onion for chicken soup. She said "I've got onions in my apartment, you can have mine!" OH MY, HOW nice! She lives in community adjacent to grocery, I follow her, and she gives me a HUGE onion!
SO, back home, and soups cooking! Tastes pretty good!
Merry Christmas, y'all!
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It's all about sharing, isn't it.
Hope your soup comes out perfectly delicious and your are warm and content, dear elleng.
Yes, it is all about sharing.
The soup's QUITE good, if I do say so myself. The dill really does it, imo. I recall dill in Grandma's chicken soup, it does great things for the soup, and brings me back!
Now that's a Christmas story
What a nice thing to happen.
... a well-stocked pantry.
I had a similar situation 2 yrs ago, whereby I needed flour for a gravy, but noticed I didn't have any. I went outside to mentally say 'F*CK' and blow off steam, when I met a neighbor for the first time. (I had just moved in, and didn;t know my neighbors.) After some chit-chat, I mentioned my dilema.
She said "Hey, I've got plenty. I accidentally bought another bag, thinking I ran out. Go ahead and take it. Merry Christmas, neighbor!"
She ended up joining us for roast beef, spuds, broccoli, and...thanks to her, GRAVY!
*whew* Ya never know... I mean, roast beef and spuds without gravy?? Must - not - happen.
Hope you had a cool Merry Ho-Ho!
getting better! Friend mentioned Black Russian, so I'm having Kahlua on the rock.
Am at friend's place, so not my fault that no onions had been around, and clearly his fault that there's only the tiniest bit of Kalua to go over 1 ice cube! (No vodka either!)
Yikes! Black russians demand vodka. (I mean, c'mon, how hard can it get? Kahlua and vodka. Two things. - and if you want a white Russian, just add cream/milk/1/2&1/2.
Some things are truly sacred... do not mess with the favorite cocktail.
Used to be my favorite winter cocktail. Spring/summer = Vodka Gimlet
A vodka dirty martini (I know... you purists out there will say 'screw vodka and screw the concept of 'dirty'. And, only gin! ) Well, I like what I like. That's what this forum/group is all about, no?
To quote Hawkeye Pierce (as played by Donald Sutherland) from the movie M*A*S*H, "A martini without an olive is sooo uncivilized. <drops olive into the swamp 'gin'>, The fellow docs are in awe, because they haven't seen an olive in years."
-g
BTW, stuff that olive with bleu cheese, in my humble opinion.
NOW you've done it!
I HATE HATE HATE bleu cheese!!!
Dislike gin, so Vodka ALWAYS fine, and
You, Galileo, are FINE with me!!!
Chop an onion, mince some garlic, etc etc and so forth!!!
And just picked up the bay leaves I'd hoped to have for last night's soup, which was quite good! Just finished it off, and the person whose kitchen failed to contain onion yesterday said, about the soup: 'A problem: You don't make it often enough!!!' That's damn true; haven't made it in ? 1? year!!!
Very happy to hear my Grandma's flavor is spreading!
