Centennial, CO's Giant First Swap
Jan from Centennial, Colorado writes:
We had 17 kinds of soup, 20 participants and a lot of fun! The “Soup Nazi” listened to all the stories during the “Telling of the Soup” and gave his nod to Tamara, who told of packaging up her soup after having dished out some for her children, and then realized she didn’t have enough for her 4 quarts and took the soup back from her children! Talk about taking food from babies!
Bribes for the “Soup Nazi” included several single servings of soup, which he awarded a gift of a soup mug to his favorite Cream of Mushroom, and some Peanut Brittle, which he immediately hid from the rest of the guests. I still don’t know where he put it and he’s my husband!
The funniest part of our swap was that I, the organizer somehow ended up with only 3 quarts of soup. Someone out there has an extra quart and they are not talking! I did make up for it by taking all the leftover veggies off the appetizer table and roasting them in the oven and pureeing them for later soup!
Here is our fabulous soup list. Everyone went home with the recipes that people either e-mailed in advance or brought with them, so it was quite fun!
- 3 kinds of Chicken Tortilla Soup, all different and one came with Zucchini bread as a bribe!)
Peanut Squash Soup
Sweet Red Pepper and Crab Bisque
Split Pea with Chorizo
Chicken Corn Chowder (from our token male swapper)
Lentil Soup
Vegetable Lentil Soup
French Onion with cheese and toast included!
Butternut Squash soup (the makers husband gave the telling of the soup and swears it’s better than the soup it was derived from which came from the Brown Palace Hotel here in Denver)
Cream of Mushroom (Soup Nazi Favorite taste)
Chicken and Salsa
Zesty Pumpkin
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo (most stolen soup from those who had wild cards!)
Hungarian Chicken Paprikash Soup (made with Shmaltz, which was described during the telling!)
Vegetable Bean (which was supposed to be Vegetable Basil Bean, but Thelissa forgot the basil!)
We had a bonus recipe for Wisconsin Beer Cheese Soup from Lynn, but she was ill and her soup could not make it!
[ed. note: This rules!]
Labels: Centennial, Colorado, Soup Swap
posted by Knox Gardner at
12:08 PM
2 Comments:
"wild card"?
Did you follow some custom version of Swap rules?
How did it work out for you?
I saw it in someone else's mention so I made up my version. I put in 4 extra "tickets" with the pick numbers that allowed swappers to "steal" soup that was already selected. Kind of like the "white elephant" exchange idea, where a gift has 3 lives and the 3rd taker gets to keep it. We had a lot of challanges over the Chicken Gumbo, and I think that may be where I lost my fourth soup.
Jan
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