#souppppp

Recipe:

- 3 Cups Rice

- 1 Bowl Ginger Ale (Generic Brand)

his hand (soup)

CASS SERIOUSLY WHY DO YOU READ MY MIND

Bc bc okay SO Steve's obviously the artist, but Bucky's truly the writer between them, and that goes beyond Bucky naturally being able to formulate professional and creative sounding writing pieces a little more naturally than Steve. And that's not to say Steve can't sound professional and creative and absolutely impactful-- I mean, look at his speeches. It's just that when it comes to putting pen to paper?? It's hard.

And part of that I take from Steve's rocky education path when he was younger. Between constant sickness and a level of poverty that Bucky's family didn't quite reach, I imagine Steve kinda was in and out of school a lot, so some basics of writing and grammar were sort of lost in translation. Which is more than okay! It doesn't say anything about his actual intelligence level, he just had a weird schooling experience. Anyway, because of that, writing for him is just a bit of a barrier, because he feels like he's missing some basics and he can't quite get the sentences to flow correctly or the punctuation to line up and it's understandably frustrating, which makes it even harder to find motivation.

So of course, there he is, in front of his computer. Typing things. Erasing them. Running his hands through his hair and groaning and sidetracking to youtube to watch cat compilations, or wikipedia to fall down a rabbit hole about fish or something (he can now tell you the origin of betta fish, by the way) until he finally gives up and dramatically slinks to Bucky in the kitchen with his laptop.

Bucky, of course, knows he struggles with this, but he also knows when to push Steve a little and this is definitely one of those times.

So he's like, "I ain't gonna write it for you, pal, but talk to me. Get out what's in your head, and then we can work on putting that on paper." and he encourages Steve to just get down his thoughts, then sits with him and helps him organize it and get it into paragraphs and check for grammar and punctuation and it takes maybe five hours and lots of frustrated Stevie and patient Bucky eating sun chips while looking over his shoulder, but they get it done! And when it's published, Bucky gives Steve a little kiss on the cheek and a soft, "I'm real proud of you, sweetheart."

And Steve gives a proud little smile and he's like, "Thanks:D"

SOUP

SOUP

Starting with Italian wedding soup -

Italian wedding soup is one of my favourite soups to make at home because it is relatively easy, it tastes fantastic, and it freezes really well. It also reminds me of groentesoep met balletjes (a tasty Dutch soup which I will rate in the future).

For looks I give it 5/5, my reasons being the colours of the ingredients are very pleasing together and the spinach gives a nice contrast to the earthier tones of the other ingredients.

For taste it gets a 5/5 as well, but this only applies to homemade Italian wedding. Campbells Italian wedding is okay, but the meatballs are a little flavourless and the broth is meh. I prefer when the soup is made with orzo because I like how it feels in my mouth.

For general likeability I again give 5/5 because I really enjoy eating it and making it. My sister doesn't like it at all because of the texture of the noodles but I rather like them. I think people are generally turned off by the noodles because I have heard the same opinion from others. This is one of my favourite soups (and I've tried a lot) so I think my opinion is trustworthy.

I don't have a recipe for this on hand, but a quick google search told me the soup can also be made vegan! I enjoy it made with chicken broth with beef meatballs over any other type - but if you are not for the beef movement, it can definitely be made with ground turkey, chicken, pork, etc. I also don't like it with an egregious amount of spinach which I have seen it made with before, I think a tasteful amount is best. If you're a huge spinach lover I say go nuts but I feel like the texture might become a bit much?

I also don't think this has many other vegetables in it, or at least the ones I have tried don't, but I'm sure it would also be good with carrots and celery.

I am not Italian so I have no idea whether the suggestions I'm making are ridiculous. If there is anyone with a go to Italian wedding soup recipe I would love to hear it as winter is fast approaching which means it's ideal soup making time (imo it's always soup season but if you wanna be particularrr)

Anywho, I hope people are having a lovely week and have had at least one chance to enjoy a nice bowl of soup. There may be nobody reading this ever, but I still want to share because I love love love soup and have nothing better to do! I have so much so much coursework to do for finals...