A Soup Supper

It was a cold and rainy night . . . .

The summer drought was broken last Saturday, thankfully, and even though we got rained out at the Farmer's Market, we welcomed the moisture for it had been so long since we had had any rain that even the lilac leaves were curling up!

And although it didn't rain all day, it did rain off and on most of the day.     And with a crisper full of odds and ends, it seemed like a soup day.

And it seemed like a company day as well and so we invited Friend Betty over to share soup with us.

Breakfast room table set for a simple soup supper

It was dark (and rainy once again) by the time Betty got there but it was fun to listen and watch the rain as we enjoyed a simple soup supper.

Spode Blue Room Soup bowls, atop Spode Blue Italian plates.   

With, of course, my beloved blue and white dishes -- and the German silver soup spoons.   Big soup spoons and the little English butter knives for we also had hot bread with rosemary.

Garlic chives and candlesticks

The garlic chives were still perky and made a delightful centerpiece flanked by the Asian blue and white candlesticks.

Empty the Crisper Vegetable Soup

Husband Jim proclaimed this the best vegetable soup I've ever made.     It was an empty the crisper soup never to be duplicated -- a few carrots and a whole lot of celery, two whole zucchini and fresh tomatoes, onions, of course, leftover prime rib, a few potatoes but not many and then just to add to the mix the rest of a bag of frozen white corn and a handful of TJ's fire roasted yellow corn and some frozen peas as well.

It made for a great rainy day supper, a super lunch the next day and Husband Jim finished it off the day after for lunch for I had a luncheon meeting.

It's Thursday and I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Tablescape Thursday.