Abra­ham Lincoln’s take on but­ter­nut squash soup

-- March 25th, 2007 --

Before you get all scared, this pho­to­graph is not a soup of any kind, it’s the mac­a­roni and cheese I made as an anti­dote to the soup, which was odd. Wasn’t it Abra­ham Lin­coln who said, “If you like that kind of thing, it’s the kind of thing you’ll like”? If not, then I said it, because this homily per­fectly expresses the way I feel about the soup I invented today (vaguely inspired by a recipe in Hello! mag­a­zine, maybe that’s the root of the prob­lem). I think it was good, if only I liked that kind of thing. But I don’t. And nei­ther does John. So I passed it along to Becky, who is the sort of friend who will try some­thing you pref­ace with, “I didn’t really like it, so why don’t you have a go?” The jury is still out with their fam­ily, as I fear she may make every­one try it. The more taste­buds the better.

But before I go any fur­ther with that, my mac­a­roni and cheese turned out com­pletely won­der­ful, and I’m…

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