Today was our local "soup kitchen's" annual fundraiser, Empty Bowls. It's something I look forward to every year... well for the last 2 at least since that's as long as we've been going.
So it works like this. Many local pottery artists (potters?) donate bowls and many local restaurants make AMAZING soups for the event. When you go the bowls are spread out on tables. There are TONS of them. You chose your bowl, and then you chose your soup. Eat your soup, and keep your bowl! It's fantastic! Last year there were NO vegetarian soups, other than plan old cream of broccoli. I was shocked... and it was an eye opener for the soup chefs. So... a couple of them promised that the next year they would make vegetarian soups. Well... they did just that. And it was not easy to chose my soup this year. Orange carrot ginger... Curried sweet potato & coconut... beet & fennel with horseradish cream. I went with the latter. My husband chose a cream of mushroom (bo-riiing) that he wasn't happy with and the kids had cream of roasted red peppers. They also serve bread, coffee, tea & dessert, accompanied by live music. It's fabulous. And the idea behind it is that every time you reach into your cupboard for the bowl you chose, you remember that it helped fill someone else's empty bowl!
These are the bowls we chose LAST year...
So it works like this. Many local pottery artists (potters?) donate bowls and many local restaurants make AMAZING soups for the event. When you go the bowls are spread out on tables. There are TONS of them. You chose your bowl, and then you chose your soup. Eat your soup, and keep your bowl! It's fantastic! Last year there were NO vegetarian soups, other than plan old cream of broccoli. I was shocked... and it was an eye opener for the soup chefs. So... a couple of them promised that the next year they would make vegetarian soups. Well... they did just that. And it was not easy to chose my soup this year. Orange carrot ginger... Curried sweet potato & coconut... beet & fennel with horseradish cream. I went with the latter. My husband chose a cream of mushroom (bo-riiing) that he wasn't happy with and the kids had cream of roasted red peppers. They also serve bread, coffee, tea & dessert, accompanied by live music. It's fabulous. And the idea behind it is that every time you reach into your cupboard for the bowl you chose, you remember that it helped fill someone else's empty bowl!
These are the bowls we chose LAST year...
This year we chose these...
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| beet & fennel with horseradish cream... YUMMY! |
fabulous idea and love the bowl collection. I didn't know about this!!!
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