Our church gave us a POUNDING Sunday night at our chili supper fellowship! WHAT is a pounding, you ask? Well we choose one person in our family for the congregation to line up and pound with a nerf bat. We chose Grace. Mostly because she asked the same question, and also because she's gullible. :)
An old-fashioned pounding is an old welcoming party where when a new pastor comes, each family from the church brings a pound of sugar or a pound of flour....etc. etc. We ended up with 10 bags of sugar, 30 cans of green beans, 20 cans of corn, many cans of chili, beans, soups, fruit, chicken, macncheese, spaghetti sauce and pasta. We also got a 20lb. bag of chocolate chips, a ham, gift cards to grocery stores & restaurants, boxes and boxes of cake mixes and crackers and cereal and well....basically, does anyone want to go shopping in my pantry? It's FULL.
And so is my heart. God is so good to show us His love through His people. What a blessing!
So I call this recipe that I made last night ALL out of things we were given from the Pounding.....
BLESSING SOUP (Perfect for a cold day with 2 sickly girls.)
1 32 oz. box of chicken broth
1 can of cream of chicken soup + 1 can of water
1 large can of chicken breast in water
1 can of corn
1 can of green beans
1 can of sliced carrots
1/2 envelope of Lipton onion soup mix
dash of creole seasoning
dash of garlic salt
salt/pepper to taste
1/3 bag of egg noodles
1 box of Saltines (to crush into your soup, of course!)
Put all in crock pot on low for 4 hours, except leave out the noodles until the last 30 minutes of cooking time. Stir occasionally or leave it and let it simmer. Perfection Purely from a Pounding.
Thank you, Shady Oaks.
