there is a reason things with tons of butter and fat taste better. thats because FAT TASTES GOOD! it is important and vital for happy food. and if anyone out there has ever compared dufours puff pastry to pepperidge farm...you know that the REAL stuff is better! the real stuff, with gobs and gobs of butter that MAY be unhealthy for you, sure, but is delicious! i dont want to get started on a diatribe, because i need to get back to work, BUT every time i see "weight-loss" recipes that have Splenda as an ingredient, or non-fat everything, or egg-beaters...i want to beat someone. i would rather be fat and enjoy my dinner than eat healthy/diet food. pretty much how i make all decisions. but i digress...
at work we have a soup club. essentially, every week, a member of the soup club brings in soup on friday for the members of the club to eat for lunch. generally accompanied by tasty bread, occasionally other sides like cheese or pancetta to sprinkle on top. Now, I don't make soup very often, but I joined soup club this year because I CAN make this really delicious butternut squash soup (with cider cream. epicurious that shit, it is DELICIOUS). so when my turn came around in december, i made butternut squash soup with cider cream and it was delicious and all marveled and everything was right in the world.
and then we decided to do a second round of soup club. because hey, we all like soup. so i needed to make a 2nd soup. well i couldnt make the same one, now could i?? no! and everyone lately has been making their soup in a crock pot, and so i thought "well that makes things easy! i should make soup in a crock pot!" ...except as mentioned before, i dont really know how to make many soups. out came the crockpot cookbook, and i settled upon a "creamy vegetable soup" which looked tasty and would help me use up some of the sweet potatoes chillin in my fridge.
last night i chopped up a bunch of vegetables, threw them in the crock pot with some chicken broth, popped the lid on, hit the "low" switch, and sailed off into sweet sleepy oblivion (okay, thats a lie, i was up cooking for a dinner party i'm doing tonight for another 2-3 hours, BUT the point is that i didnt need to do any more work on the soup! and it cooked while i eventually slept!)
this morning, as i drove to work, trying to avoid any hills or bumps that might make the soup spill out the lid (unsuccessfully, i might add) i had a thought. was i supposed to put butter in the soup? hmm. hmmm. i am pretty sure that the ingredient after the onions in the recipe was butter. butter. you know, to soften the onions and generally add a little flavor? you know, that tasty thing? got to work and checked out a similar recipe online. yep. butter. tried another one. yep, that one had butter too. remember back to the butternut squash soup i made before? had butter in it. the parsnip soup i made a few weeks ago for a dinner party? butter in it. the soup i made today, for a dozen other people, my cooking reputation on the line?? no butter in it.
i am so depressed. i, unintentionally, made healthy diet soup. and it tastes like healthy diet soup too. because it lacks BUTTER!
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