Dinner from the Pantry

How many times have you been too tired (or, if you're me, too lazy) to leave the house to head to the market to shop for dinner? Now, as I happen to actually love shopping at the market, it's not too - too often... but, every now and then, I find that on my way home from work, I just don't want to stop at the store. In my head, I start taking a mental inventory of what I think I have in the fridge, freezer and pantry and I start making up a menu. And every time I get home, I find the store in my head is usually much more plentiful than the one I'm stuck with! This however, is where the real creativity comes in.

This morning on my way to work, it hit me that I sold out of all of my seasonal soup on Sunday and that I hadn't ordered anything for soup for today. My reaction? Aloud I said "crap in a bucket" and then proceeded to go through my mental work refrigerator. Once again, the real refrigerator was much less full! However, there was garlic. And onions. And vegetable stock. Could it be that simple? Would it work?

So, with about 60-70 cloves of garlic and three onions spread onto a pan and then lightly drizzled with oil and salt, pepper and rosemary, I crossed my fingers and placed them into a 350 degree convection oven! Thirtyfive minutes later, I removed the VERY frangrant tray and let it cool, and then combined it in the Vitamix with veggie stock. It was delish. All day I've been handing out the recipe.

I'd like to say that I was quick enough to come up with a cool reaction about the soup but being the over excited gerbil that I am, I simply said "I realized this morning I needed to make a soup and forgot to order supplies. This is the result." Not so cool or witty, but, hey, it's the truth! Come on in this week for our caramelized garlic and onion soup!