CHICKEN RICE SOUP AND AN ITALIAN SAUSAGE SANDWICH: A DESCRIPTION
> the chicken and rice soup had an bite size
> pieces of tender chicken breast, leeks and wonderful little round crisp
> juicy green objects which I realized were peas. I had become used to the
> vile taste of canned peas as served in my workplace cafteria, but no! these were
> juicy and fresh and crisp in the wonderfully warm and rich yellow soup.
> And here is the best part: there was something about this soup that made
> we want to have bowl after bowl of it. why I wondered, was it so strong
> and wonderful tasting. Not just a bland chicken soup. It was alive
> bold! full of flavor! If a soup could smile at you and strut this one
> would've. I realized what it was that gave it its power.. The soup had
> just a hint of fennel in it, just a hint, like a radio playing in
> another room. It was wonderful. Like catnip the fennel was, a hey! how
> about me ingredient! in calm comforting hearty nourishing soup I
> perked up . I cold have had ten bowls of this fresh and daring soup.>
> Then came the magnificent open faced sandwich. too big to pick up with
> both hands, the ingredients in between a half a loaf of truly tasty
> crusty freshly baked Italian bread. the Italian sausage itself was
> medium-rare! yes medium rare! a juicy Italian sausage surrounded by and
> reposing on a thick blanket of soft, chewy gooey mozarella cheese and
> covered by sauteed onions obviously sauteed in real butter and a wine
> sauce, very fresh tasting browned onions dripping with the saute , and
> some red tomato sauce as is sometimes found in a very very good pizza in
> an Italian neighborhood and sauted sweet red peppers, and the flavors of
> all these oozing together inside the thick soft cheese cover which had
> for its part another layer of fresh grated parmesan cheese on top of it
> like sesame seed sprinkles. As i bit into the steaming hot sandwich,
> the juices and the wine broth spurted out and a fragrant steam arose
> from inside the stromboli like shell and it smelled so good heads
> turned. as I tasted the bites of sausage, I realized here the fennel of
> the soup was echoed by that of the meat, the sausage was juicy with
> blood and wine. Ah it was wonderful!
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