Morning,

As those that are regulars know, I am on a working holiday so to speak, I have helped move someone belongings, helped plant gardens, helped redo yards and fix grades on land etc while visiting with family, I am currently visiting the DH’s ma who just had surgery a bit ago and so I am tending to stocking the fridge/shelves, and “surprise” have been asked to do some gardening work..

but the one that I am writing about today was the make soup day, my mom really likes this young couple in her home town, she thinks they are hard working and trying to move forward, and having meet them, they do seem very nice.. they openned up a coffee, soup and sandwhich place, but here is the catch, they don’t know how to cook..

Now when my mom told me that we were going down for couple hours to teach the basic’s on how to make good soup, I honestly thought that it would be able sharing some of the things we do to take basic soup and make it AMAZING soup, but no.. it was basic’s, as in how to use the grater, how to hold the knifes to cut the veggies, and those knifes LOL, only two and so dull, that they didn’t so much as cut as mush into food, they have a small kitchen but its not really that small, its because its not planned out, there is a ton of unused space in there, but you need to have shelves and proper cupboards etc..

In the end we spent four hours, made huge batches of four kinds of soups, with write out for at least three to five ways to change each of the basic soup to serve it different, we talked about presentation and mouth feel for the customers.

The thing that I found so interesting is that while my mom made two soups and I made two and they were both so different from each other, we always start with the basic’s and as we rarely (almost never teach folks at the same time), it was so funny to see the same things said in the same way over and over again and yet the end products are so different, mom’s being so very earthy and local for the farmers, and mine being just a touch more international or so they tell me 😉

While it was a goodly amount of work, it was also nice to work alongside my mom in this way and will be one of the good memory’s I bring home with me, I may look like my dad but I am so much like my mom in my way of talking, moving and thinking, the older I get the more I see it..

So here is my thoughts today, if you can call your mom, go spend some time with her, ask her about how things were done by great-grandma, work side by side, if your mom is no longer with you, make her favorite dish or cake or cookies or go plant her favorite flowers in your beds.. or dig out some old pictures and take a moment to remember just how special YOUR mom is to you!