There ain’t no party like a casual soup party.
Two of the soups were time-consuming, since the beans needed to be soaked overnight and cooked for about an hour and a half, and the adobo involved lots of steps and a long braise, but I could easily have gone simpler. Even so, this felt simple to pull off since the work was so divided. Tip 3: Set Up a Soup Buffet
Since this isn't a formal dinner party—it isn't formal! Not formal, I say! Got that yet?—you can set the food up buffet-style and let people take a bowl of soup whenever they want.Let guests serve themselves in the kitchen. Put two Dutch ovens on the stove over super-low heat to keep the two soups warm, and use your slow cooker on its low setting to keep the stew warm. Put a ladle or big spoon in each soup so people don't cross-contaminate.
Set out a big stack of bowls. Use disposable bowls if you don't have 20 bowls —just make sure the disposable bowls are strong enough to hold hot soup. I like the ones frombecause they're strong and cute and also compostable. I chose small bowls so people could take samplings of all three of the soups I made, which went over very well. Everyone participated in age-old soup banter and engaged in lively debates about which one was their favorite soup.
Warm your soups about 10 minutes before the party is scheduled to start, and then set them on low, low heat and try to check on them every half hour during the party to make sure they're not suddenly cold or burning. That's the only "cooking" work you have to do during the party: checking on soup temp, and refilling the punch bowl.
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