Thursday, August 20, 2009

A true Guilty Pleasure that Grandma would love...

No matter what the season, simmering soup is always a heartwarming guilty pleasure. Whether it's Grandma Sylvie's chicken soup, Rocco's Lentil soup at staff lunch, that "too amazing for words" soup at the LeSport Spa in St. Lucia, Pho Thai Nam's Fatty Brisket Pho or Tabatchnick's gourmet Kosher soups in a pouch, there are few moments more gratifying and personally pleasing than savoring a bowl of delicious soup.

While homemade or restaurant-quality soup is our first dining choice, the frozen soups from Tabatchnick Fine Foods are always a very delicious, convenient and satisfying alternative. Using Grandma's secret family recipes that have been their signature trademark for over 100 years, the chefs at Tabatchnick prepare their large variety of soups the old-fashioned way - slowly simmered, in small batches.

According to their website, they measure the success of their soup making by quality, not quantity. We had the pleasure of meeting a member of their senior management team recently and he beamingly told us that the Tabatchnick family takes great pride in producing wholesome soup made with only the finest, natural ingredients. That high level of quality control and family supervision make Tabatchnick Fine Foods a very healthy guilty pleasure. I know this must be groundbreaking information for some members of the Guilty Pleasures Club.

It took three months, but Guilty finally realized there are many healthy guilty pleasures looking for the limelight. Somewhere special Grandma Tabatchnick and Grandma Sylvie must be smiling and slowly stirring that small batch of love.