Wednesday Adventure
Tonight at church we had yet another second Wednesday adventure hosted by Bobbie Denny and Linda Hall. Tonight's dinner was soups and sandwiches!
Sandwiches included pimento cheese, cream cheese on raisin bread, and (if it counts, and yes it does) taquitos.
Soups (all made by Lind Hall) included Potato Crack Cheese Soup, Vegetable Beef Soup, Chicken Cheese Corn Chowder, and Cajun Bean Soup (with Italian Sausage.)
Also lots of cornbread, spicy, sweet, and otherwise. And oyster crackers. And captain's wafers. And goldfish crackers, including Mickey Mouse goldfish (?!)
I was at a table with Anna (Andrew and Amanda's baby, not really, foreign exchange student from France), Andrew, Amanda, myself (obviously) and Ashley. Adjacent were Amalfi and Erica plus wandering kids.
While most of us debated soups (the Chicken Cheese Corn Chowder became the table favorite, and yes we tried others), Amanda was insistent upon having only sandwiches.
Andrew posited an interesting question: Suppose one end of a spectrum represented soup, and another represented sandwiches. What would be the theoretical midpoint between the two? It was a spontaneous and interesting questions.
While spooning myself more soup, I thought of a spontaneous and serendipitous answer:
Sloppy Joes!
The table marveled at the perfection of the answer. I enjoyed a moment, or two, or five of self-congratulations.
We discussed many other sandwich-to-soup midpoints. Stews, French dips, lava cakes (which introduced a new axis on the continuum, sweet versus savory) and so forth.
Eventually another answer came to me, the perfect meeting point between soup and sandwich: Biscuits and gravy.
Our small table went wild. I enjoyed a few more moment of adulation.
When dinner was complete, Marjorie read several interesting (albeit confusing) New Year's riddles. Then we completed some interesting (albeit disturbing) gingerbread man wuzzles. (Some of them too soon ... RIP, Joan of Arc. ❤️)
I say this with great sincerity:
A good time was had by all.