Good Soup?

Good Soup?We came home after lunch to find a note from our
If you want to get rave reviews on any soup youhusband’s saying, “Thanks for the good
make, the first element is to make sure your loved onesoup.” We looked at each other and asked,
first has a long, steady diet of military food.“What soup?” Neither of us could figure it out, so
Here’s our story:just figured the guys must be loosing it, and shrugged it
When my husband and I were first married, he was inoff.
the military and had lived for months off of militaryWhen they got home that evening we asked,
food. We purchased a small trailer, while waiting for it“What soup were you referring to?” With that, the
to be delivered and hooked up, we lived with anotherhusband’s eyes got huge, as he remembered
young military couple for a few weeks.then telling his wife to fill that pan with the old, dried
All 4 of the young adults in this household had manymacaroni and cheese with hot, soapy water and it
responsibilities and lots going on with life, so thewas left on the stove for soaking. They had heated up
housekeeping end of things were pretty slack. Onethis soap mess and ate it! Not only that, they ate half
evening we all pitched in and started cleaning. Therethe kettle.
was a pan that had several days old, dried macaroniYou can be sure; they appreciate any real food
and cheese stuck all over the pan. The husband toldthat’s cooked. Its so nice to be appreciated.
the wife to put hot soapy water in it and let it soak.It’s so wonderful cooking for “non-picky
The following day, she and I both had the morning off,eaters”.
so we went to do laundry at the local Laundromat.