Cook Monkeys

Yesterday, in an attempt to purge our refrigerator of leftovers from the dinner party, I decided to make soup.

Our ingredients consisted of:

• spicy chicken wings
• a curry beef and potato mixture
• celery
• onions
• carrots
• rice

I chopped the vegetables while R.B. tore the meat off the wings. We threw the beef and potato mixture along with the vegetables into a pot and put it medium heat. After boiling the chicken bones, we added the broth into the mixture along with the chicken. Determined to make it taste good, we decided to use a variety of spices to add flavor to the soup.

What we threw into the soup:

• a leftover spice packet from a package of Ramen noodles
• salt
• black pepper
• celery salt
• garlic powder
• dehydrated tomato stew mix
• seaweed
• and lots of chicken bouillon to make it taste like chicken again

After a few hours, it was pretty good and R.B. suggested adding rice. We made 3 cups of uncooked rice and then added it to the soup. A little later, and the soup was done. By this time it was starting to turn solid again. All throughout the day we were tasting it to see if it was ready, and we burned our tongues. I also ended up burning my finger too because I turned the heat on the wrong burner. When we ate it, it was still relatively soupy. By the end of the night, it had essentially turned itself into stuffing thanks to the absorption of the water by the rice.