The girls and I were invited to attend the fourth annual “Great Bowls of Fire” event in the Glebe last night.
The premise is so simple and so creative. The Ottawa Guild of Potters donates 400 handmade wheel-thrown bowls. Local restaurants donate gourmet soups. Local bakeries donate bread. You pay $25, pick out a gorgeous bowl, and get two soup tickets (and all the bread you can eat).
It is a winning combination of good stuff:
- you get to enjoy delicious soups of your choice
- you get to choose (and keep!) your bowl
- money raised goes to the Ottawa Food Bank
How awesome is that? Seriously, this put the fun back into fundraising. Everybody comes out a winner, UNLESS, of course, you happen to be my children and cannot find a soup you like.
I wish I could remember all the restaurants and their soups. Participating restaurants included Domus, Allium, Stoneface Dolly’s, Absinthe, and others.
And the soups? Delicious. There was Potato, Bacon, Ale soup from Wellington Gastropub. Vidalia Onion with croutons and cheeses was my fave (possibly from Eighteen ?), Red Thai Curry, Tomato Cumin, Carrot and Brie, Shrimp Corn Chowder, Tomato Ham-hock with Beans … so many! It was difficult (for me) to choose because they all sounded amazing. My children tried them too, alas, each was deemed too spicy or too chunky. It shouldn’t have bothered me, but it did. So they ate bread and drank juice. *sigh*
On the bright side, we now have three beautiful handmade bowls for our not-spicy-not-chunky-organic-tomato-soup-out-of-a-box… (or yogurt, as you can see by Sarah’s bowl this morning):
… and the Ottawa Food Bank is $75.00 richer (which was our contribution). Would I go again? Certainly. Would I leave the kids at home next time? I’m still thinking about that one. :)
