After being near death this week with not only bronchitis but laryngitis and eating nothing but soup and popsicles I find Saturday fast approaching with an event called Soup it Up Culinary Challenge. Soup is the last thing I want to see right now but this is an event I have entered, I entered it weeks ago. This challenge is held by the Jr. Chef Association and will take place at Exhibition Park Maritime Fall Fair. This competition has kept me up at night and when sleeping I have dreamt about my soup. Literately keeping me in vivid dreams about what soup to make. I have researched recipes, I have talked to a dozen chefs and others who consider themselves soup connoisseurs and after hearing what everyone thinks I should do... I came up with my own combination that is quite delicious.
The way culinary competitions work are you are given a list of ingredients or a black box with no knowledge of what ingredients are in the box, then you are to create a dish with only those items. In the Soup It Up challenge we have been given a list of ingredients. We will be given a harvest basket and have 2 hours to create 100 servings of soup. The general public then votes on the soup.
I can not disclose my soup recipe or the name of my soup until after the competition. I had a early tasting of the soup on Friday night where I received much appreciated feed back from my best critics. All honest, all appreciated and of which I have kept in mind going into my very first culinary competition. I look forward to you coming out to vote for the best soup this Saturday October 18th from 12-2 at The Maritime Fall Fair. By the best soup I mean mine:)
