Foodie Friday: Chickpea Soup

My mother was visiting, and we had fun pulling out the ironstone and zingy napkins.
I found the chickpea soup recipe in my dog-eared Marcella Hazan cookbook, Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. You can find it at Stylish Cuisine.com.
My mother wasn't wild about the soup...so I kept tinkering. I added ham and lots of Tabasco. :-) And I cooked long-grain white rice. The guys arrived from the barn, chilled to the bone, and finished off the soup.

Mixing ironstone is too much fun.
I decided to make a figural bread--can you guess what it is? Hint: it has a curly tail.
Actually, I'd intended to shape mice bread--but I couldn't do it. Gradually the dough acquired a snout, and I thought, "Ah, a pig!" I added ears, and a curly tail. Then it morphed into my mother's dog. So I'm calling them Dogpigs.
The teeny one in front is a sort of ladybug. :-)
Bark or oink?

The sun came out just for an instant.


Then it faded...
Here's a closer look at the napkin.

Barbed wire flatware

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