Soupruary @ Mine

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Tonight was my contribution to Soupruary. I made gumbo and thai mushroom soup. The cocktail of the night was an interpretation of a drink I had at the Modern about a year ago. The original drink used Hanger One spiced pear vodka, but I finished off my bottle months ago. So, instead, I used: lime juice, pear juice (since I was missing the Hangar One), ginger beer, plain vodka and serrano chilies. Clearly, the theme of the night was spice. The gumbo turned out quite well. My hour of near constant stirring clearly paid off. Also, Trader Joe’s frozen brown rice works surprisingly well. The thai soup, while flavorful, came out overly spicy. The chilies that the recipe called for were nowhere to be found, and the ones I substituted ended up being substantially spicier. We also had bread and chocolate eclairs for dessert. In retrospect, I should have dusted the eclairs with chili powder. They were decidedly un-spicy.

For entertainment we drew a few things on my craft robo pro. Aron asked for a drawing about the Watson Jeopardy games we’d watched at an earlier soupruary. We ended up going with Jenning’s Final Jeopardy response, praising our new overlords.

These soups were eaten by:

Aron, John, Yang, Betty, Bryan, Tim and Jenna

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