Soup Swap Continues! Arlington...

Just because National Soup Swap Day has passed you by, it doesn't mean you can't gather up your pals and swap some soup! Au Contraire!

Take our new friends in Arlington for example, it worked best for them to swap an entire month after Soup Swap Day. And boy howdy, it sounds like they had a great time.

Pam and Liz write,

... And now, here it is: the photographic record of the Feb. 24 soup swap held in Arlington, VA, hosted by Pam and Liz and held at Liz' home. We had a total of 12 soups, as listed below, and 10 soup-makers who spent a lovely afternoon together, drinking wine, chatting, snacking. It was great!

We had a wonderful Telling of the Soup, with stories that ranged from the old family recipe handed down by Great-Uncle "Trader" Joe, to the husband who got stuck with peeling the squash since he failed to buy the kind that was precut and already peeled, to an actual *real* old family recipe, to recipes both tried-and-true, and, made for the first time.

We had 2 soupmakers who could not attend in vivo but the rest of us picked soup for them. Our gracious host Liz had surprise gifts for the first and last soup-pickers, and for the person who had the best Soup tale (it was the woman whose husband peeled the squash. Acorn squash. Raw. We thought he deserved it. )

Everyone of us agreed that we want to do it again, and we even talked about doing a summer soup event - chilled soups, like gazpacho, melon, cucumber, etc. Yum!

Woo hoo for Soup Swapping any time it makes sense. If you folks in Arlington can pull off a summer soup swap, you let us know. Everyone else, what are you waiting for? There's still more than enough winter left to inspire some folks to swap some soup!