Can't Go Wrong

Can you hear the choir of angels when you look at this picture of a steaming hot bowl of hearty winter soup?  It was quite a simple soup, but everyone loved it.  I'm giving the credit to the bread bowl.  When feeding kids, it's all about the presentation.  My kids will eat anything out of a ramekin, no matter how veggie-laden or weird-colored.  They will eat pureed broccoli out of a ramekin, as long as it's topped with melty cheese.  Ramekins are small, too, so they don't waste a lot of  food.

I thought the ramekin was my best friend until I met the bread bowl.  I always associated these with special occasions, but now that I see their hypnotic effect on children, I will serve every meal out of them!  "Mom, why is there a stack of graham crackers in this bread bowl?"  "I know, yummy, right?!"  "Yes, Mother.  Thank you for dinner!"

Granted, this soup isn't the healthiest meal, unless you're raising a premature panda baby.  It will definitely stick to your ribs, which is good if you're a baby panda.  If you already weigh enough, you may want to eat this in moderation.  And good luck with that, because it's goooooood.

Here's my bread bowl soup recipe:

Cook chicken breasts in the crock pot, dice, throw back in, save the juice.
Saute diced onions and carrots in butter, add to crock pot, don't wash the pan because you're about to make a roux in it.
Make a roux (lots) with butter, flour, milk and the stock from cooking the chicken.
Dice potatoes, boil, add to crock pot along with a bag of frozen peas.
Add sea salt and coarse ground pepper, and the secret ingredient: a couple of tablespoons of pesto.

Now that I look at that, it's not much of a recipe, given the lack of measurements (other than "lots"), but it's soup.  You can't really go wrong. Just make up some numbers and stick them in there.

One number you can count on with this soup is 100.  100% success rate with anyone eating it, provided you have lots of (there's that measurement again) butter for the bread.  Bon appetit!