Glad to hear it was a success!

On another note - thanks for posting the pictures. I am remodeling my kitchen. I have dark cabinets and intend to keep them and refinish them. I like the combination you have with the counter top and backsplash.

Teresa

Thank you for sharing all the details of your creative exchange! I think it sounds like a delightful and innovative luncheon idea. It's also a great way to mix friends from different areas of our lives who enjoy cooking & food!

teresa, come over to the kitchen forum if you haven't already for more inspiration!

I dread the day I have to start making choices. I cannot make up my mind about anything. I've shopped around and the more counter top choices I see the more undecided I get. And I've brought samples home and they don't look the same in my lighting as they do in the store lighting.

Maybe I should visit Kitchens - select someone elses kitchen and make it mine!

Teresa

I think your soup exchange looks wonderful. I'd love to do something similar but the people my age (retired) I know mostly don't cook anymore. Everybody eats out. Their kitchens are fancy and look pristine but you couldn't make a PBJ sandwich if your life depended on it. I'd never get them to make soup. :(

/tricia

Yum!

SaraKat - another name I am not familiar with. Welcome - whether you are new or returning to post here. And please go on over to the "Be My Valentine - Newcomers" thread. Tell us a little bit about yourself. It might get buried in a thread of another title.

Welcome!
Teresa

tricia, ask people of all ages to join in the soup exchange. While most were in their 40's we had one 65, retired person. It didn't matter everyone got along and had a good time.

Wonderful that your Soup Swap was a success.

Thank for the posting of recipes.

Ever since the Seinfeld show, I have become a soup addict, not soup Nazi. :-)

dcarch

Who was the soup nazi? was one of the trvia questions that I think everyone knew.

Congratulations on a successful soup exchange. Some good tips too! Welcome to the CF, NancyLouise

That sounds like great fun. I don't have any friends that cook here, but once we move, I'll be able to round up others that like to cook, and may just use your idea.

I love your counter top.

Sally

Posted by debrak_2008 "Who was the soup nazi? was one of the trvia questions that I think everyone knew."

Then give them this one the next Swap:

Whose older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone." ?

dcarch

debrak, that sounds like a lot of fun. Like others, I have friends who mostly don't cook, only my friends here seem to enjoy cooking. Everyone else likes eating at my house, LOL.

I really like the frozen cookie dough exchange idea, as I often make cookie dough and freeze some to bake later, it's very convenient to have on hand.

I also think a simply dessert would be good, maybe cookies, especially if you have some in the freezer! Or brownies or bars of some type, something that could be eaten out of hand.

Annie

debrak, that sounds like a lot of fun. Like others, I have friends who mostly don't cook, only my friends here seem to enjoy cooking. Everyone else likes eating at my house, LOL.

I really like the frozen cookie dough exchange idea, as I often make cookie dough and freeze some to bake later, it's very convenient to have on hand.

I also think a simply dessert would be good, maybe cookies, especially if you have some in the freezer! Or brownies or bars of some type, something that could be eaten out of hand.

Annie

dcarch, do I get the answers?

Annie, maybe you should have cooking classes at your house. I had a hard time finding people. Most people I know said they have never made soup and just use canned. Others were worried their soup wasn't good enough.

Now that I've done this once those who attended can help spread the word.

Glad you like the frozen cookie idea. I like to make chocolate chip dough and freeze it in cookie sized balls. I don't know how many other types of cookies could be frozen like that. So thinking....that each person could bring perhaps a dozen or more "cookies" for each person. Then you would go home with lets say a dozen of 5 different types of unbaked frozen cookies. I love to be able to just pop some from the freezer into the oven when cookies are needed.

Any other thoughts on this idea?

"Posted by debrak_2008

dcarch, do I get the answers? ------ "

Yes, but later :-)

May be someone else here can guess.

dcarch

Wasn't it Soupy Sales?

Very good Teresa!

Soupy Sales, older brothers had nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone."

Soupy's nickname was "Soup Bone"

dcarch

I like the frozen cookie dough idea, but I did participate in a Christmas cookie exchange when my friend Eva was still here - she is now in Oregon. I would need a bigger freezer to store 5 quarts of soup!

I also love your island and wish I could renovate my kitchen also. Kevin wants to also, mostly because we get aggravated by the dishwasher. When it is going through the drying cycle, it is not possible to turn it off, but I want the dishes to dry without heat to save electricity. I also want new countertops and could use new cabinets. I think we should just get a new dishwasher!

One would think that we could have a soup exchange here in L.A. among the CF forum members, but it's a bit difficult to get everyone together, due to the distances here.

Lars

Sally, thank you!

publickman,
We installed our 6 year old DW in the new kitchen. It lasted 2 weeks. In a month or so we are getting a new one. A Bosch which does not have a heater element but dries by condensation or something like that. So you might like that.

Sounds crazy but I don't worry about electricity for drying dishes, but then our island granite is heated. yeah, its set at 82 degrees. We love it.

I've got 8 quarts in the freezer right now!

Those interested in kitchen design, come over to the kitchen forum.