The Great Soup Making Adventure

So yesterday, my friend Luca and I decided to make soup in the painting studio.  The studio has a hot plate for cooking up rabbit skin glue to prime canvas with.  Sometimes people cook food on it, but my professor, Susan Moore, said no one did that last year.  I bought a pot, and have been making pasta in the studio for lunches for a while.  It's nice to be able to make some hot food right there at school when you are craving something.


The soup making was lots of fun, especially the part where we had to improvise from the tools we had in the studio.  These are the steps for cooking soup in a painting studio:


Step 1:  Wash hands. thoroughly.  Use exacto knife left in studio from previous year to chop vegetables.  Use an abandoned book of Italian poetry as a cutting board (it doesn't have any paint or dirt on it, so it should be fine).

Step 2:  Admire the still life set up you have created.  Looks like Dutch influence to me...

Step 3:  It's evening, so you can admire the light coming through the window shutters, called serrandas in Italian.

Step 4:  Notice how the floor has a similar pattern to the soup mixture (or to the well used hot plate).

Step 5:  Let the soup simmer for about half and hour.

Step 6:  Place the finished soup in cheap Tupperware you bought in the supermarket for 50 euro cents each.  They mostly act as bowls.  Enjoy your hard earned meal!  Supplement with water.

The soup adventure was exciting, and some really good tasting food came out of it.  I remembered why I like cooking with other people, and how half the fun of cooking is the challenge and suspense of not knowing how it will be completed or how it will turn out.  I highly suggest more people cook in the studio.