Noah’s Favourite Soup

Tomato Lime Sopa

This recipe is adapted from several sources, and is, let’s face it, completely inauthentic, excepting that it’s authentically awfully darned good on a cold day. And the kids like it. Besides, isn’t authenticity overrated anyways? Consider it postmodern, if that helps. Better yet, just enjoy, and have a shot of tequila.

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This is a lovely soup for a cold winter day, with as much lime as you want to throw at it (I throw a lot, a whole lot), and, and the moment at least, the kids will eat it, and it’s relatively good for them, as least compared to the otherwise almost daily macaroni and cheese, which it seems no matter how many ways to try to find to spike it with some vegetable matter, they’ll find, and pick them out, and probably drop on the floor, and manage with a straight face to claim that they’ve finished their supper and “ate it all up!” while sitting/standing in a pool of crumbs and other foody detritus, and look up at you with those big googly eyes and imploringly ask about some dessert, perhaps that cupcake they remember being around, except that maybe you ate it yourself last night in a moment of weakness, so you think instead maybe they could have a cookie, except that hey waitaminit, you didn’t really “finish” your supper, half of it’s just lying there on the floor, isn’t that like a total cheat, I’m trying to raise you two to be honest, and have a good appreciation for the food we prepare and eat, and I know you’re not old enough to know what’s good for you and what’s not, but you’re old enough to know that dropping food on the floor isn’t quite the same as eating it, and I’m getting a little tired of cleaning up all this stuff, I thought that’s what we got the cat for, and isn’t he getting lazy these days, I really — no, you can’t have any more apple juice, that’s all you’re living off of these days, that and Cheerios®, c’mon, how ’bout at least a little banana or something if you’re not going to eat those carrots or peas, look, here’s some yogurt, it’s just the kind you NO don’t push that away, I work hard to make the money to buy that, and I had to carry that all the way home from OKAY THAT’S IT, you’re all done, it’s bath time, let’s go, you too, you’re all done, you’re filthy too, I think there’s still some oatmeal on your face from breakfast, good grief, the two of you, were you saving that for a snack, come on, up we go, let’s get the squirty toys, look, there’s one for you and one for you, and SHARING remember our SHARING, look, she had that first, you got lots, so she can have that one, you keep this up, no presents for anyone under the tree, you know better than that, I’m not kidding this time, let’s just get through this, and then it’s time for bed, couple stories, you can choose one and she can choose one, and then it’s bedtime for two tired little hobbitses....