If any of your ingredients are frozen, thaw them before you start to assemble the soup.
Then the food starts to arrive, soup and honey wheat bread followed by a communal plate of salads involving beets, garbanzo beans, carrots, eggplant, potatoes and other vegetables and legumes.
A good make-ahead start to such a meal is soup, and a good start to such a soup is an autumn vegetable puree.
For a nice start to your meal try the soup featuring butternut squash, a vegetable she truly loves using in the winter.
Seafood soups were a wonderful start to the meal.
Broil the soup until the cheese starts to brown and the soup begins to bubble.
Lower the heat to medium-low and pour the cream of mushroom soup mixture on top of the steaks let it cook until the soup starts to bubble.
I started to bawl over the soup and didn't stop--I was a floppy fish out of water in a place where they liked that as a movie concept but not in real life--and Wendy was kind and nurturing and reassured me that my grey matter would not turn to cottonwool, well, not right away, anyway.
Once the soup starts to boil again, add in the carrot and potato cubes.
The longer reach of a standard stirring stick will also keep your hands far away from the heat if the soup starts to boil over, too.
