To: Sig who wrote (83302 ) 12/2/1998 3:28:00 PM From: jhg_in_kc Read Replies (5) | Respond to of 176387
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! > jhg