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The busy days of Fall are taking over for the lazy summer days of picnics and BBQ So much to do to get ready for school, work and after school activities! For convenient and nutritious meals for lunch and dinner enjoyed at home or …
Back to School and Back to Work Back to School and Back to Work As summer winds down, we all start preparing for back to school, to work and back to work. Whether we are doing classes at home or at school, going off to College/University or …
Summer is here and the air will be soon filled with the yummy scent of BBQ and picnics, and Soups From Me To You new delicious Soups and Sides!
Soups From Me To You will be enjoying the outdoors at the Waterdown Farmers Market on at Memorial Park starting Saturday May 29th from 8:00 am to 1:00pm until June 26th and then returning in September 11th until October 16th.
Students, parents, and guardians are waiting for the coming of June’s wonderful weather, and summer vacations – staycations. There are murmurings from the Province that Ontario outdoor recreation & park facilities may open in early June…..let’s hope so. We may be able to visit all those summer favorite beaches, parks, playgrounds that have missed us, and enjoy picnics and BBQs.
There are many days in June we would like to celebrate with outdoor dining. June 18th is designated International Picnic Day, and is also the birthday of Superman! Father’s Day is celebrated June 20th and many of us have our own Superman – Dad’s and all the other special men in our families. June is an important month in the Soups From Me To You Family.
We know that many enjoy BBQ but some favourite BBQ treats take a long time to make. Soups From Me To You can come to your rescue with our new product, slow Smoked Pulled Pork. It is coated using our own Southwest spice mix.
Our delicious Smoked Pulled Pork is available in 480g packages that serves 2 – 4 hungry diners. Each package sells for $12, and we are offering a New Product Promo of Buy 4 and received 10% on your Smoked Pulled Pork order and receive a free freezer bag. You can pre-order on our website and pickup at the Waterdown Farmers Market.
May and June is filled with the delightful smell of flowers, vegetables and fruit that can be found at Outdoor Markets. June is designated Outdoor Market Month and it looks like the Markets are cautiously planning to open. Soups From Me To You will be at the Waterdown Farmers Market starting May 29th through to June 26th, we are back September 11h until October 16th. We won’t have samples (Health Safety protocol), but small sizes (480g) containers of our products will be available to purchase. Limited quantities will be available at the Waterdown Farmers Market, but you can pre-order any size from our website Soups From Me To You and can pick up your order the following Saturday at the Waterdown Farmers Market!
Have you downloaded the Get In The Loop App? Soups From Me To You now has a Punch Card System on the App. When you are at the Waterdown Farmers Market and you purchase Soup, you will be given a Code. By adding your code to Punch Card System on the App you will collect towards the free Soup. Our Codes are valid only on Waterdown Farmers Market Days. The Code is live for 24 hours on Saturday (12:00 am to 11:59 pm).
Collect 4 Punch Card System Soups and get the 5th one free!
When you reach your 4 Punches Get In The Loop will provide you with a 5th Soup Free Code. Redeem your 5th Soup Free using your Get In the Loop Code on Waterdown Farmers Market days.
Congratulations to a fabulous nurse, Lizzie Stec who won last month’s contest “Tell us about a fabulous nurse”. We socially delivered Lizzie her selected soup bundle and soup cozy. She was over the “soup-bowl” on winning the prize!
May flowers are usually the result of April showers, but this April included a few days of Mother Nature playing April Fools pranks on us, with several days of snow! Our poor shivering flowers! May is the month that Mother’s Day is celebrated. We all …
Peoples’ knowledge of Food Footprints & Healthy Eating has Increased During Covid! It has been a year since Covid was found in North America, and people’s eating habits have become better. Consumers have become more knowledgeable of what they are eating, concerned about the health …
The month of March can be full of anticipations and disappointments. We anticipate the coming of Spring and warmer weather, but we know we can experience the shivering disappointment of more chilly, wintery weather. Luckily, Soups From Me To You has a great variety of ready to heat Soups, that you can order and make to take the chill off during the cold days.
March has many memorable events observed on specific days. Two interesting dates are March 9 – National Get Over it Day (we would love to be over COVID!) and March 11 is National Worship of Tools Day Holidays (a day all handy persons can appreciate and observe!).
Two days that involve the enjoyment of food are National Pi Day observed on March 14. Pi is a mathematical constant 3.14… which appears in many mathematical and physics formulas. Most importantly to food lovers, it is celebrated by eating lots of pies.
The other important food observance day in March, is St Patrick’s Day. St Patrick lived in the 4th Century, is credited with converting many Irish to Christianity. It is believed he died March 17th, and this has come to be celebrated Internationally as St. Patrick’s Day. It is a day celebrated with feasts, shamrocks, and anything green or Irish.
Soups From Me To You has a choice of Soups that will help you celebrate the day. Our Pureed Parm ‘Sparagus Soup is definitely green. Our Mom’s Polish Split Pea Soup (Traditional and Vegan) are made in the Polish Tradition. However, Pea & Ham Soup has been a popular Soup in Ireland for centuries.
Soups From Me To You will be hosting a Monthly contest. You may enter once per month. A winner will be selected each month. Winning eligibly once every three months. We like to spread our Soups around to other winners. Entries must be received by end of day March 22, and the winner will be selected March 23 and notified the next day. The Winner will have 2 months to claim prize. The Winner must provide permission to be announced in the next month’s email and Blog.
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated March17 with the eating, drinking and wearing something GREEN! Soups from Me to You is celebrating by hosting a contest where you can win a Soup Bundle of your choice.
Just send us a picture of yourself wearing Green and eating one of our Soups by March 22. Can’t send a picture, send us a few sentences, telling us why you like our Soups. The Chosen winner will receive a Free Soup Bundle of their choice!
The existence of Soup can be traced back to about 20,000 BC. Bread has played an important role in the enjoyment of Soup, and in fact, the origins of the word ‘Soup’ is tied directly to Bread. Bread is one of the oldest human made food and can be traced back 30,000 years ago, where there is evidence of flour, likely used in unleavened bread. There is evidence it was made in many places around the world.
The origins of the name “SOUP” from “soping” up broth with bread. The French word soupe (soup, broth) comes from a Germanic/Latin word suppa which means a bread soaked in broth. This source also identified the word ‘sop’ which is a piece of bread used to soak up soup or stew. Other sources are and uses are sop and sup in old English, soupe in French, sopa in Spanish and soep in Dutch; these were used for the practice of pouring gruel or both, and later soup, over a stale piece of bread.
Breads and breads items are good accompaniment to soups and stews; they add substance and interest to a soup or stew. Before there were spoons, forks, sporks, people were scooping up their soup using a variety of baked/prepared items.
Bread comes in many different forms. Most breads are either made by baking of steaming. There are more than 50 basic types distinguished by their ingredients, shape, taste, and leavening agents. Although wheat is the most common grains used, barley, rye, millet, corn, rice and oats. Recently there has been a trend towards using ancient grains as amaranth, splet and kamut.
Canada has a rich variety and history of many different breads that reflect the Canadian history and the many cultures of people who live here. Bannock is found through out North American Native cuisine, and is said to be introduced by Scottish traders and explorers in the eighteenth century. You may be familiar with “Beaver Tails” a whole wheat pastry, fried and covered in an assortment of goodies. The North American Indians originally made these and called ‘pigs’ ear’.
The French influence is seen in baguettes, brioche, and white bread which is used to make French Toast! Italians have focaccia, bastone, biscotti, grissini, ciabatta, and of course, pizza.
The United Kingdom has given us soda dread, scones, crumpets, hot cross buns and brown bread; the US cornbread and Johnny cakes; Germany pretzels and pumpernickel. India and Asia have given us different forms of naan, chapati, dosa, roti and pappadums. Two “breads’ pita (Greece) and tortilla (Mexico) have become ‘fast food’ staples! There are so many more types of breads from so many countries; lavash, babka, challah, zwieback, yufla, tandoor bread, to name a few more!
So there you have it .. it all started out with really great bread and yummy broth which in turn was called SOUP!
Smacznego!