Time: Sunday and two containers of left over tomato sauce from lunch meat loaf.
Problem: Need for quick supper.
Challenge: Refrig too full – Need to use leftovers.
Fun: Create a new soup. Make a bit of white sauce (Guess on amount of butter & flour) and add one chopped green onion to white sauce. (A bit withered, but still an onion. Better cooked than raw in salad.)
Throw in last of a gallon of milk found in glass in frig. (Probably 1/2 cup.) Stir.
Meanwhile cut up a bit of red pepper and pull out remains of some chunky salsa and toss both into lunch time tomato sauce. (Throw bottle away.)
Add a generous amount of pepper and a bit of Dash. Heart patients (ME) need to be careful about salt intake.
Then for the unique ingredient – a half cup or so of frozen peas. (I love peas in most everything so why not in tomato soup????)
Finally chop up a few sprigs of basil sitting on shelf in frig. They might taste good with the tommy-toes. (My father always called the tomatoes that) and just for fun, I dumped about 1/2 tsp of sugar in. I have no idea why, except the sugar container was sitting on the counter.
I let it simmer for a few minutes while my friend was napping. My friend wakes up.
Poured creation into twin bowls and topped off with handful of cheese and garlic croutons. (They happened to be on shelf and just reached out to me, saying, “Please use us.”)
Dessert was a bite sized Mr. Goodbar for each from the candy dish at the auto dealership, while getting my car washed on Saturday.
You decide if soup was terrible, tasteless, delightful, or ready for state fair judging and let me know.
I will give you a hint: The soup is now history. (I don’t know about the recipe.)
So, what can we learn from this little cooking lesson about God? First it seems like He gave us creative brains designed to work with his variety of food creations. I was glad he added the basil and peas to His garden.
But second, and far more important, God can take you and me, leftovers in the world of seniors, and use us. He can then cause us to become aware of skills and joys we love and combine them as instruments of service or worship. (e.g., Just as I like the taste of the tomato, peas, and red pepper creation – so I love the fact that he gave me a joy of story writing, a crazy sense of humor, and willingness to let people laugh with me. Together, God and I attempt to share His love for everyone in such a manner, that each reader will want to taste, and then, realize that the results are rather delicious. I plan to continue to utilize those skills until He calls me home. Hope you check out your set of skills and talents and polish them up in a new arrangement and surprise your friends
and/or strangers. The Kingdom will rejoice.
(PS If you would like my recipe for Cream of Green Bean Stem Soup, find my book, Ransom Notes by Kathryn Ann Ransom, at Barnes and Noble or Amazon and turn to page 37).
Happy creating for God.
Kathryn Ransom 