To all participants:

Posting this note from Martha, organizer of Soup & Bread:

Here's what you need to know:

* Please bring your soups to the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, between 5 and 5:30 on Wednesday.
* Bring them hot, if at all possible. It takes a VERY VERY long time to warm up ice cold soup in our crock pots. Like, hours.
* Bring 2-3 gallons, more if you like. JLB: WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND AT LEAST 3 GALLONS UNLESS YOU WANT TO RUN OUT AND HAVE EVERYONE GIVE YOU MEAN LOOKS
* Please plan to stay and serve your soup if possible. And if you can't, let us know so we can round up a volunteer.
* We provide crock pots, as well as ladles, bowls, spoons, etc.
* If you are new to Soup & Bread, see our FAQ here http://soupandbread.net/soup-bread-2013-faq/ -- and then hit me with any unanswered questions.

Bread will be provided by Crumb Bread and Publican Quality Meats. Our DJ is Jillian Matson, and all our pay-what-you-can donations benefit Casa Catalina in Back of the Yards.
We will promote the event with listing on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/SoupBreadChicago) and on Twitter (@soupandbread), so please help us spread the word if you're down with such things.

Thanks again, and see you next Wednesday!

I will be bringing some sort of homemade candy assortment - likely buttercrunch toffee, peanut brittle, truffles. I figure they automatically fit the love, lust, hate theme because I love to eat them; lust after them; and hate what they do to my waistline

Sounds delicious--thanks!!!

I will not physically be there. I will send my dessert down via Cathy2. Still clueless what I'm going to bake.

Sorry you can't make it Dave but thanks for your contribution

i'll be bringing World Peace cookies- one of the world's best. nothing says love like chocolate. (i'll bring about 100). looking forward to wednesday.

Although I was unable to make soup this year, I'm planning on being there to eat everyone else's and contribute to the cause.

Thanks Joan--I'm sure they'll be delicious!

Stevez--we appreciate your support!! Hope lots of you will follow suit!!!!! With this crazy winter, I'm sure the Casa Catalina Food Pantry could use every bit of help we can give them!!

Spent the entire day saturday making 85 gazillion itty bitty baby meatballs ...
exhausting but delicious.
Ground turkey, turkey sausage, fresh bread crumbs, egg and parmesan.

i see there aren't many desserts coming, so i'lll bring a second dessert- possibly coconut blondies and some oatmeal/apricot bars.

That's lovely Joan--thank you!!!

If you're short on desserts, I'd be happy to bring a coffee cake or two.

I've got about 100 Nutella Meringues in the oven. I can make another batch on Wednesday. I'll be baking for a bake sale on Thursday, so if I have time I'll make more meringues or something that doesn't need to be in the oven as long.

Ms. Ingie wrote:I've got about 100 Nutella Meringues in the oven. I can make another batch on Wednesday. I'll be baking for a bake sale on Thursday, so if I have time I'll make more meringues or something that doesn't need to be in the oven as long.

nutella meringues sounds fantastic- i can't wait to try one.

OK - time for me to get my act together. I'm definitely in for Buttermilk Chocolate Cookies. Maybe another type of cookie/bar thingy recipe to go along with it. We'll see. I'm sending down my stuff with Cathy2.

Hi,

I will bring cheese soup instead of Hungarian mushroom soup.

I have a lot of cheese from the demise of Dominick;s.

Regards,

Sounds great everyone--thanks!!!

stevez wrote:If you're short on desserts, I'd be happy to bring a coffee cake or two.

Desserts are always part of our night but never required--so if you would like to bring something, that would be wonderful but if you run short on time, don't worry about it--the most important thing is to come out!!!!

Cathy2 wrote:Hi,

I will bring cheese soup instead of Hungarian mushroom soup.

I have a lot of cheese from the demise of Dominick;s.

Regards,

I love cheese soup!! I'm going to turn in our final soup roster to Martha, with designations for Vegetarian and Vegan--as of now, I have Leek down for a soup that is Vegan if you forgo the yogurt drizzle, mbh's entry is vegan and not sure about yours--is it vegetarian? Doesn't need to be but if it is, we'd want to let people know.

thanks!!

Hi,

It should be vegetarian. If I go for some variant where sprinkling bacon is suitable, it will be on the side.

Regards,

My meatballs and broth are turkey/chicken so even tho they are meat they are meat/light

Thanks!

i've got at least 4 friends committed to showing up tomorrow night: i wowed them with descriptions of the soups!!

justjoan wrote:i've got at least 4 friends committed to showing up tomorrow night: i wowed them with descriptions of the soups!!

Oh great - don't bother giving us dessert folks a little credit.

Will anyone have a knife I could borrow to cut up the coffee cakes I am bringing?

stevez wrote:Will anyone have a knife I could borrow to cut up the coffee cakes I am bringing?

I can bring some disposable knives for your use. I have a feeling they have knives there to cut up the donated bread.

Regards,

Cathy2 wrote:

stevez wrote:Will anyone have a knife I could borrow to cut up the coffee cakes I am bringing?

I can bring some disposable knives for your use. I have a feeling they have knives there to cut up the donated bread.

Regards,

Correct--no need to bring knives--I'm sure they have that covered.

Dave148 wrote:

justjoan wrote:i've got at least 4 friends committed to showing up tomorrow night: i wowed them with descriptions of the soups!!

Oh great - don't bother giving us dessert folks a little credit. :D

sorry, dave, i didn't mean to hurt your feelings. i've been telling people that i'm contributing dessert to soup&bread; i didn't want to toot my own horn by saying how fabulous the desserts were going to be!!! i promise to try your cookies, as well as all the other desserts.

I had a long day today out in the cold, so I dropped off my meringues with Joan, just in case I'm not feeling up to a ride into the city Wednesday night.

Thanks so much Ms. Ingie--hope to see you tomorrow--we'll have lots of hot soup to make you forget the cold day today!!