Delightful soup

[stgulik]

I made vegetable soup tonight. I tried to recreate the soup they serve at our local family restaurant. Mine came out quite delicious, though not precisely like the restaurant's.

My daughter works there as a server. You would think she'd agree to steal the recipe for her beautiful mother, but no!

Comments

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

If it's a chain restaurant, sometimes you can Google the recipe, like "Olive Garden minestrone soup recipe", and get other people's takes on it.

I once worked as a server in an upscale Italian restaurant, and frequently worked the time between lunch and dinner alone with just the the sous chefs. Once, I came across the chef's notebook in the kitchen, so I copied a few recipes I particularly loved. Your daughter really needs to get proactive on this issue! ;-)

[toblass.livejournal.com]

And were you able to make the soup just like the chef?

Yummmm...

[mimimanderly.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. It was a spinach-prociutto cream soup. One of the sous chefs showed me how to make the spaghetti aglio e olio. I figured out how to make tortellini d'oro by following similar recipes and adjusting it. I'm especially proud of that one, because that was sheer detective work, and I managed to recreate the taste.

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Her priorities are so skewed. ;)