We Made Soup Last Night!

Hi everyone...I am Emma.  I finally get a chance to blog as Rockers has gone home.  He is the biggest of us all and thinks he is the boss!  I really miss being able to wrestle with Noodles - she comes across as cranky, but she can be a ton of fun.

I would like to suggest that Ruby helped us execute this recipe, but given her choice, she would be outside on the deck or patio all day long, literally 24/7.  So, it was pretty much up to me to give Janet a hand.

Janet wasn't feeling well last night, so we thought perhaps some nice warm, soothing soup might do the trick.  We went through a couple of blogs that Janet likes and ended up with Red Lentil Carrot Coconut Milk Soup from the Diary of a Crazed Cook.

There were a couple of small issues with this..first, Janet likes to cook, but rarely does soup beyond Corn Chowder (aka Milk Soup) that she has been making since her children were young (many, many years ago).  Recent additions have been Beef Barley Soup for the last couple of winters and about three weeks ago, Chicken Noodle Soup.

The next issue was the recipe called for a slow cooker, of which Bronwyn has a very nice one.  However, I never paid attention when Bronwyn was using it, and Janet had never used it before.  We searched high and low for the manual, without success.  Could I have devoured it in my need to keep up my daily intake of paper products?  We plunged ahead as Janet decided if the slow cooker didn't pan out (ha ha), we could resort to the stove top.

We couldn't figure out how to use the browning feature on the slow cooker, so we started on the stove top.

The slow cooker

The finished product.  It was really good.  The original recipe did not call for croutons, but Janet made some and added them.  It was a huge success for basically a non soup cook!