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Date Posted: 00:56:45 03/29/10 Mon
Author: BB
Subject: SOS

Like many men I consider myself to be an undiscovered master chef who gets the occasional urge to take over the kitchen and whip up a culinary masterpiece. I had one of those urges today.

Soup. For some reason it had to be soup.

In the supermarket I was drawn to a bag of leeks that was on special offer. As I put the bag in the trolley I wondered if I could make soup entirely from ingredients that were on special offer. Inspiration strikes when you least expect it. The concept of SOS (Special Offer Soup) was served to me in the golden ladle of serendipity, drawn from the tureen of endless possibility.

Here are the ingredients for the first batch of SOS:

Leeks
Onions
Carrots
Brussels sprouts
Ox tail (almost at sell-by date)
Casserole steak (almost at sell-by date)
Basil
Parsley

I lightly fried the onions in some olive oil in a big pot, then added the casserole steak and browned it, then added water and the rest of the ingredients. I let it simmer for two hours, took out the ox tail pieces and removed the bones and put the meat back in the pot.

It tastes pretty damn good though I'm not quite sure if the sprouts deserve to be there. I see this as one of the best things about SOS. You are combining a list of ingredients arising from the supermarket's promotional campaigns and sell-by dates. There will be an element of randomness. As you push your trolley along the aisles you are embarking on a voyage of exploration in an ocean of produce. One day, perhaps, you will discover the lagoon of perfect SOS, never encountered by humankind before. To hell with going to Mars. There is a universe to be found in a bowl of soup, at a budget that when expressed as a percentage of NASA's has so many zeroes between the first non-zero integer and the preceding decimal point that it would have to be written on the biggest strip of paper ever made.

I invite you all to have a go at SOS. I'm already planning a visit to a different supermarket. The next experiment will be reported in about a week's time (I made a LOT of the first batch).

BB

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