Saturday Charred Chicken Tortilla Soup
Showered and feeling human again I return to searching for photos for slides. I also realize it is past noon I am hungry. I pour pictured soup into saucepan. I then return to my search. I have photos people have sent me they want added to the rolling announcements. I troll Facebook to add photos of events members of the congregation have posted. Vicariously aware they will want this one shared or this one would be good if properly cropped. People enjoy the images celebrating our life as a church family in the announcements. It is as if I watch their lives on Saturdays instead of doing Saturdays. Like any dog if you run across a video of a squirrel you are distracted, lose the trail and end in the brambles. At some point I noticed an odor from the kitchen. I had something in crock-pot for tomorrow. I thought it couldn’t be warm enough to be presenting such vigorous vapors. I went into kitchen to investigate. I discovered the saucepan still boiling away with a soup, now thicker. Maybe that would make it ragu? I had created charred tortilla soup.
Not that I was actually watching squirrel video but could have been.
Here is the recipe:
Open can pictured, dump in saucepan. Remove label because United Methodist Women are collecting them for some mission project.
Add water to contents of can; ignore instructions not to add water. Get all food ingredients into saucepan.
Any soup that passes my wife’s calorie count muster will require additional enhancing ingredients; a little extra water will be needed.
Turn on flame to heat soup to a boil, leave until thickened. Crust will have formed on bottom of pan.
Get out jug of Pace picante sauce at least medium
Add either wedge of Laughing Cow cheese, grated Parmesan or any cheese desired.
Alternately today, I skipped cheese got out sour cream, which we still have an abundance of.
Add picante sauce, then pour into bowl, scrape remaining crust and thicker ingredients into bowl. Add sour cream. Say small prayer of gratitude for nonstick saucepan. Enjoy; with enough sour cream and picante sauce anything is good.
Become aware that you and your wife are indeed growing old together; say prayer of gratitude for that and all the new experiences, plus unexpected cuisines that will be created.
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