Stracciatella soup | This Is Ours Just For A Moment from the series cosy in the rocket - A Grey's Anatomy AU by @bazzybelle
Today's recipe is from Belle darling's awesome and my new favorite Dreamling story--a Grey's Anatomy AU! Poor nurse Hob is sick, and McDreamy neurosurgeon Morpheus comes to Hob's house and makes this soup for him! Their story began with a meet-ugly, so after a lot of misunderstandings, things are slowly getting better between the two of them. But while Hob is loopy and has lost his filter, calling Morpheus his dream and all that, Morpheus is blue-screening and being a colossal idiot (affectionate), all stoic and dutiful, suppressing his feelings for Robert, which means more delicious angst awaits us! 😈 Check out the story and meanwhile enjoy lines about the soup, which I made during fall break because it's soup weather in the northern hemisphere! I had some unexpected surprises with this recipe but it turned out really well in the end!
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With the quick cleanup done, Morpheus sets about the task of making the soup. Stracciatella soup, one of his favorites, and perfect for a fever.
A quick search in the refrigerator as well as the pantry yields most of the ingredients. Chicken stock, eggs, lemons, and some acini de pepe pasta.
Morpheus fills a pot with water and brings it to a boil, adding a couple of the chicken bouillon cubes.
While the cubes dissolve, he cracks some eggs and whisks them in a small bowl, adding the juice of half a lemon into the mixture.
Once the cubes are completely dissolved, he adds no more than half a cup of the pasta.
[Carnelian made her first mistake here--she added a whole cup of pasta as she was cooking for two and had doubled the amount of chicken stock according to a recipe. More pasta, creamier texture, which is delicious but I think this was supposed to be a clear soup 🤡].
Once the pasta is al dente , Morpheus adds the egg and lemon to the pot and slowly combines it until it’s completely cooked.
[Carnelian made her second mistake here--instead of slowly, she whisked the eggs so well that it emulsified like a custard instead of forming curds or strands like egg drop soup. Also added some grated parmesan because the recipe said so and Belle said parmesan was important too!!! But the cheese also added to the creamy texture. Basically there's a lot of confusion because this soup is really creamy at this point, not clear like in the pictures.]
Finally, he ladles some of the soup into a small bowl. He would like to add some parmesan, but cannot find any. The soup will have to do without.
[Carnelian had copious amounts of grated parmesan cheese and so in they went! The soup, although first creamy, got clearer in a bit. But either way it was absolutely delicious!! I've never had any soup like this one before!]
Then Morpheus feeds Hob soup!! Read the rest of this great AU!
