Campbell's Soup is doing themselves no PR favors lately, but I've been my mom's Cream of Asparagus dealer for the last few years. The stores near her stopped carrying it a while back, but my beloved Nugget had it on the shelf pretty reliably. Until recently. They still didn't have it today, so I did a little investigation. It looks like Campbell's stopped making Cream of Asparagus a few months ago.
I could probably make a pot and freeze it in individual servings, but it wouldn't be the same. Cream of asparagus over toast is a comfort food, not a culinary triumph. So even if I made a soup that was better than the canned version, it wouldn't occupy the same niche.
Oh well.
Gouache of the Day
The bear from this tutorial is pretty cute. I'd make it again.
Then I revisited yesterday's ocean wave disaster. My next attempt wasn't much better.
I thought maybe if I made the foam a rainbow, that would help. It did not.
Perhaps a wave is not my thing.
Obligatory Kitten Picture
It's Cool Ranch!
2 comments:
If she likes cream of mushroom or cream of chicken or cream of whatever they still make, you could get that and she could add chopped asparagus to it. That's probably as close as you can get. I stopped buying those canned soups years ago. Dad used to ask me for them thinking they'd be a nice comfort, easy on his aged teeth...and he could not even eat most of them because the taste was so bad. He still ate cream of mushroom on bad days because it was one of the few he could stand. Maybe cream of potato with...would work!
Cream of mushroom might be close. Oh well. Maybe they'll bring it back at some point.
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