Now let's get to cooking.
I love soup. It's way up there on my list of favorite things to eat. Coincidentally, soup is the only thing that I can ever cook with any consistency.
So when Lizzy made an entire blog post about soup and soup recipes I was determined to try and make one. One soup stuck out in particular, the Italian Wedding Soup recipe. Why? Because she decided to add this message at the top:
"First up...simple and impossible to mess up:"
First things though, I decided to omit celery from the recipe because we didn't have any at home (and I hate celery) and I used macaroni for pasta because I'm a poor University student.
And while we're on the topic of first things, first problem I encountered was that a lot of my meatballs decided to fall apart and split in half. :(
Crumbling monstrosities...
Maybe I wasn't gentle enough with them. Perhaps I added too many sauteed onions to the mixture or maybe I should have just thrown them into the soup instead of trying to cook them for a bit first. No matter, the point is, I had misshapen and fragmented meatballs in my soup.
And here we have a final product:
Looks a lot nicer than the stuff in the pot. But looks are deceiving.
The biggest issue I had when making this soup was that it was way too salty. This could be due to the brand of chicken broth I used. Or maybe it's because I decided to use regular ground beef for the meatballs.
And then pour the meat drippings and fat from the pan into the soup.
. . . .
Derp.
But other than that I think the soup turned out fairly decently. So I guess you win Lizzy. Only took me an hour to make and I'm excited to try cooking or baking something else again in the future. Though not the lobster bisque because WHY ARE LOBSTER TAILS SO EXPENSIVE?!
Oh and for those that are wondering, I'm still working on that hollow book. Slow and steady.
