Soup & Bread Night at the Hideout, Wed. 2/11/15, 5:30-8:00

It's that time of year: LTH is participating in Soup & Bread 2015 at the Hideout (1354 West Wabansia Chicago IL 60642)--our night is Wednesday, February 11th from 5:30-8:00.

Soup & Bread is a free weekly community meal based at the Hideout, a bar and music venue in Chicago.

Each week they round up a handful of chefs, caterers, musicians, writers, artists, and home cooks of every persuasion to donate pots of soup. We serve them up to all comers — along with fresh bread donated by Publican Quality Meats — until the pots run dry or the late-night jazz guys kick us out. It was designed to be an easy, low-key way to get folks out of the house and socializing in the dead of a dark Chicago winter — not to mention, when we started this up in 2009 our friends were losing their jobs left and right. At times these past few years it’s seemed the entire city could use a nice hot bowl of soup.

Toward that end, while the meal is free, we solicit pay-what-you-can donations each week that are donated in turn to a wide range of neighborhood food pantries and hunger relief agencies. Over the last six years, through events at the Hideout and out of town in Madison, New York City, Seattle, and beyond, we have raised more than $50,000 for Chicago-area food pantries as well as the Greater Chicago Food Depository (the central food bank serving the Chicago region), the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, and Western Washington’s Food Lifeline.

No theme nights this year--just cooking great soup for a great cause. The only request is that we have at least 1 Vegetarian and 1 Vegan entry--soups that are otherwise Veg but with optional meat add-ons are always welcome. Based on prior years, we recommend bringing 3-4 gallons of soup.

The hosts provide us with slow-cookers and serving utensils. You should plan to bring your soup already warm since heating a cold soup in the slow cookers can be very challenging. Also, our serving space is pretty tight so keep that in mind when planning your soup--there usually isn't a lot of room for multiple topping bowls, etc.

We need 8 Soup Chefs and unlimited bread and dessert volunteers. And, of course, people to come out and support our efforts! If you're interested, please sign up now and you can let us know what soup you'll be bringing later. And for those of you not wanting to cook, we'd love for you to mark your calendars and come EAT!!!

Participants:

Soup:
Boudreaulicious--Italian Beef Soup
BR--Chicken, Tasso & Andouille Gumbo
mbh--Curried Red Lentil & Coconut soup (Vegan)
Cathy2--Sweet & sour cabbage soup (+Sour Cream to top) (Vegan w/o topping)
The GP--Green Curry Chicken Stew
Laikom--Ochazuke
syncretism--Rabbit pozole

Bread/Dessert:
justjoan--gluten free brownies and black currant filled oatmeal bars
Fleurdesel--Pies
Dave148--dessert
Hellodali--chocolate raspberry bars
izzy2--dessert, salad
ronnie_suburban--desserts

Yes! Looking forward to this . . . just received my andouille from Wayne Jacob's so some of it will be put to very good use here.

I'm in, I usually do something vegetarian so I'll continue that tradition. One of my favourite moments of the LTH holiday party was having Glenpan's son ask me to autograph my recipe in the Soup & Bread cook book. I love both Martha and this event.

Yup Me too! Glad you're in (and that you will soon have a kitchen to cook in again--whoohoo!!!!)

Hi,

I will make a sweet and sour cabbage soup.

Regards,

I'm in! Soup selection TBD.

Cathy--is your soup vegetarian, vegan or with meat? No pref, just keeping track!
Welcome GP! Your first time with us, yes? Let me know if you have questions as it gets closer.

This will be my first time doing this. Looking forward to it!

i'll be bringing desserts, including a gluten free one. always a fun night.

Thanks so much Joan--everyone will be excited for your delicious treats!!!

boudreaulicious wrote:Cathy--is your soup vegetarian, vegan or with meat? No pref, just keeping track!
Welcome GP! Your first time with us, yes? Let me know if you have questions as it gets closer.

Hi,

It is effectively vegan, though I will have sour cream to plop on top for vegetarians.

Regards,

I think I may take a break as a soup-maker and just be a participant this year,
mostly due to the date.
My Mardi-Gras food fest will most likely be the weekend before since Mardi-Gras is so early this year (Feb 17) and I don't want to have it over Valentines day weekend....
<3

With any luck at all, I'll be in New Orleans on that date. If I'm in town, I'll make soup. Don't hold a spot for me, though. I'd be a last minute fill in if I happen to be here and you are short on soup makers.

Iris Arbor--no problem--happy to have you support the soup eating efforts!!
Stevez---if you can join us, great--otherwise, have fun in NOLA!

For everyone else still thinking about participating, we have 3 soup spots left (we could probably squeeze in a 9th if we have a big response) and we don't need anymore vegan/vegetarian options, though we can certainly have more than the minimum if someone prefers to make it.

Please put me down for dessert.
Thanks!
Fleur

Will do--thank you fleur!!!

I'm in with a dessert TBD.

Great Dave--thanks!!

Count on me for a dessert as well.

So glad you can join us Hellodali!! Thanks for the contribution--I'll add you to the list!

We still need a few more soup chefs--don't wait or the spots could be gone

Hi

please put me down for Non-Veg TBD if there are spots left

thanks

I will make a salad, cabbage based, not too spicy.
And dessert.

Thanks leek and izzy2--see you there!

I'll do soup again this year. I'll go for my old standby Butternut Squash. Can make with chicken or vegetable stock, whatever you think is preferred.

I see that you haven't added me as a soup maker. Do you still need one?

I think I missed your post but, yes, definitely! Thanks Ms. Ingie. Your choice on that stock to use--just let me know the final verdict.

Thx!!

One spot left!! Since we have a lot of veg heavy soup offerings, it would be great if 1-2 of the open/undecided spots chose something on the heartier side. Everything so far sounds delicious!!

Thanks all!!

Hiya. Last year, I made a rabbit posole for S&B that came out alright, and I've been looking for an excuse to make it again. So, if you'll have me, I'd love to sling alongside y'all.

Welcome and glad to have you join us!

Mine will be veg, but not vegan.