It's that time again. Time to swap some soup!
I love the concept put together by blogger Knox Gardner at http://www.soupswap.com/news/.
1. Make some soup, or buy it and repackage it as your own, we don't care!
2. Freeze in quart size containers.
3. Gather fellow soup makers.
4. Swap some soup.
5. Go home with a bunch of different kinds of soup.
6. Have a great time.
In Centennial we like to have lots of soups. For the past 2 years we have had 17 kinds of soups at our swaps. We only do 4 quarts instead of 6 because frankly most peoples stock pots make 4 quarts easily. We don't want it to be hard, we want it to be fun. Our swap is famous for having a lot of still warm soups on the table!
We also have fun prizes. We award the best tale of the soup, the makers of the first soup gone and the poor last soup left on the table, and the Soup Nazi (Ron) awards his favorite swapper for whatever he feels like they have done to make the soup swap memorable (he is open to all types of bribery and sucking up!)
This year we are going to take on the challenge thrown down by Indianapolis and taken up by Knox's hometown of Seattle and try to collect the most food for a local food bank. We are not competitive or anything (yeah right!).
I hope you all can start a swap in your neighborhood. It's a lot of fun, a great way to meet the neighbors and you get some really great soup out of it.
sounds like fun! I remember my mom swapping sourdough starters with some of her friends before, but a soup swap sounds so much better to me :) Jan, I saw your site from the foodieblogroll and if you won't mind, I'd love to guide foodista readers to your site.Just add a foodista widget at the end of this blog post and it's ready to go.Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHi Jan! Would you be open to creating a modified graphic for my upcoming soup swap? I'd like to print it on the cover of the recipe booklet I am creating. Would just need to exchange "Centennial" for "Cypress"
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