Raisin soup as dessert, or together with rice porridge is a tradition in the Nordic countries.
So myPerson, on her mission to use all items found and forgotten in the cupboards in a clever way, decided to make raisin soup for the three hungry kids who'd come to our place later that day.
Normally raisin soup is done with cinnamon and grown ups can also get a shot of brandy for flavour. For kids, one can skip the cinnamon and must withhold the brandy.
All you need to do is boil the raisins in water or juice, add some sugar and eventually thicken with potato or corn flour (starch).
Things did not turn out as planned. The kids didn't like the soup so it ended in the recycling bin for the local bio gas plant. MyPerson was very disappointed. The raisins could have gone directly into recycling rather than boiling for several minutes, wasting electricity. Apparently the net effect was far from optimal.
If you go to a mindfulness course you are likely to have an exercise where you ponder about a raisin. Now imagine if myPerson would have used her raisins for that! There would have been no electricity waste, and she'd be highly enlighted by now.
Or, had she used just a few raisins to beef up her mindfulness; she might have thought of making an other Nordic tradition: Pulla.
Pulla is like a sweet bun. The kids would have loved it. And in fact, Pullakahvi (sweet buns with coffee) should be considered as the Mother of BulletCoffee. Pullakahvi has the added value of being served to guests coming to the house and when it comes to health and well-being, nothing beats socializing in a relaxed way.
With all those lost opportunities I had to symphatise with MyPerson's disappointment.
I tried to cheer her up by bringing her a mouse, but it didn't help. Now I understand when men say women are hard to please.
Well, now she has too many tomatoes that are slowly getting old. I'm off for my afternoon stroll and let's see what happens next.
-Robert
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