Soup on a (REALLY) Snowy Day

To the weather: PLEASE STOP SNOWING!!! Hasn't it been enough? There's already two feet on the ground! Do we need any more? NO!!! I don't see any advantages to this blanketing of snow, so please give it up. Sincerely, The DC Teen Foodie.

Actually, there is one advantage, and that is soup! After going out in the snow and wandering around looking at all the stuck sand trucks, the one thing you want when you get home is soup. Today didn't disappoint. My mom found a recipe for Asian chicken-noodle soup and it was amazing. The broth was vegetable broth, soy sauce, sugar, some seaweed, and the chicken was poached in it. The noodles were just plain rice noodles. There was also spinach and shitaake and button mushrooms. It was sort of like pho in that you could mix in whatever you wanted. I can't really describe it, but it tasted like soy sauce and warm and cozy. The best thing was that I could eat it while watching the snow pour down. I think there's almost 3 feet now.

Another thing I forgot to write about yesterday is the fudge cake I made yesterday. It's my great-grandmother's recipe. It's called a fudge cake because you make a fudge type sauce that you pour over the hot cake just as it comes out of the oven so it soaks in and makes the cake fudgy. I don't get to make it often anymore because it calls for Droste's cocoa powder (it's a really nice Dutch brand) and the stores around here don't seem to sell it anymore. We finally managed to find some before Christmas, so I've gotten the chance to make the cake again. Yes, I could make it with other inferior cocoa powder, but it changes the consistency and the taste. Better not to make it than make it wrong. Hmm... that's a good motto, isn't it?