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They just keep getting smaller!
Jan. 20th, 2006 06:37 pmMy Freshmen, that is. I mean, I know they're all actors and dancers and what-not, and have probably been on diets since they were 13 years old, but still...
(For those who don't know, I teach/supervise a crew of freshmen who have to hang and focus lights for their "crew" assignment. I'm also teaching a portion of the Intro to Stagecraft class, which means I get some lecture experience. Yay! I've done two so far, and they've gone okay. No one has fallen asleep yet...)
In celebration of not being on any sort of diet, I present:
Christmas Soup! (or, as the PoC calls it, Giftmas Shoup...)
cook 3/4 cup dry rice ahead of time
1 pound frozen spinach
1 small onion, chopped
1-3 cloves garlic, chopped
3-4 cups vegetable broth (or water with a bouillon cube)
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1-2 Tbsp butter
1-2 tsp lemon juice (can be from a bottle)
sour cream for topping
Fry the onion and garlic in the butter. Stir frequently until the butter starts to brown and the onions are pretty soft.
Add broth, spinach, and cooked rice. (I usually forget to defrost the spinach, and put it in frozen)
Let the mixture boil/defrost, then simmer 20-30 minutes.
Stir in lemon juice and bell pepper.
Simmer another 15-20 minutes.
Serve hot, with lots of sour cream on top or stirred in, as you prefer.
Really, the point of this soup is to eat sour cream. (Without sour cream, it's a nice, mild soup...but the point is the sour cream. My mother likes it with yogurt. I don't entirely disagree.)
Speaking of soup, I should go home...but that involves overcoming the inertia that's holding me in my chair. I'm tired from a long day, and looking at about 3 weeks of work without a day off. (That might be an exaggeration...there might be 1 or 2 days when I won't have to come in to work.) And yet I don't feel like leaving...
(For those who don't know, I teach/supervise a crew of freshmen who have to hang and focus lights for their "crew" assignment. I'm also teaching a portion of the Intro to Stagecraft class, which means I get some lecture experience. Yay! I've done two so far, and they've gone okay. No one has fallen asleep yet...)
In celebration of not being on any sort of diet, I present:
Christmas Soup! (or, as the PoC calls it, Giftmas Shoup...)
cook 3/4 cup dry rice ahead of time
1 pound frozen spinach
1 small onion, chopped
1-3 cloves garlic, chopped
3-4 cups vegetable broth (or water with a bouillon cube)
1 red bell pepper, chopped
1-2 Tbsp butter
1-2 tsp lemon juice (can be from a bottle)
sour cream for topping
Fry the onion and garlic in the butter. Stir frequently until the butter starts to brown and the onions are pretty soft.
Add broth, spinach, and cooked rice. (I usually forget to defrost the spinach, and put it in frozen)
Let the mixture boil/defrost, then simmer 20-30 minutes.
Stir in lemon juice and bell pepper.
Simmer another 15-20 minutes.
Serve hot, with lots of sour cream on top or stirred in, as you prefer.
Really, the point of this soup is to eat sour cream. (Without sour cream, it's a nice, mild soup...but the point is the sour cream. My mother likes it with yogurt. I don't entirely disagree.)
Speaking of soup, I should go home...but that involves overcoming the inertia that's holding me in my chair. I'm tired from a long day, and looking at about 3 weeks of work without a day off. (That might be an exaggeration...there might be 1 or 2 days when I won't have to come in to work.) And yet I don't feel like leaving...
