The story of "stone soup" exists all over the world. In my favorite variation, a hungry traveler appears in a village with nothing but an empty cooking pot, a spoon, and his appetite. When the suspicious villagers will not show him any hospitality, he sets up his cooking pot in the village square and begins to boil water with a simple stone in it. As the curious townsfolk pass by and ask him what he is doing, he stirs the pot and tells them that he is making stone soup. Further, he explains that at the end of the day when the soup is ready, everyone will be welcome to come and share it with him. Eventually, one person ventures that the soup might taste better with a few onions. Soon the villagers are each bringing a couple of carrots, a potato, a little salt, whatever they have on hand to add to the stone soup. At the end of the day, the whole town shares a delicious pot of soup (minus the stone, of course), and they have also learned a valuable lesson about the joys of shari...
Good morning everyone, and happy July! I hope you were able to enjoy Friday the 4th and Saturday, before the heat came roaring back. For those of you who love the heat, all I can say is that I'm jealous :-) I can't stand the heat, never have been able to, but I'm still happy for all of you who love the Summer. It's such a short season here in New England. We had a wonderful dinner together on the 4th. One of our regular dinner friends had her birthday, so we celebrated with brownies and ice cream sandwiches (thank you, Ginger and Alison!). We had a smorgasbord of dinner offerings, including lasagna, ravioli alfredo, hamburgers, green beans, and salad. It was fun to help ourselves to a little of everything. Saturday was not as busy as usual, and I'm thinking that some folks might have assumed we were closed due to the holiday. It was ok though, because it allowed us to practice setting up the Coffee Bar again (thank you Brian!). We also had time ...