A Souped Up Dinner

One of my favorite restaurants in Ann Arbor, Grizzly Peak, has a great cheddar-ale soup. I'm not ordinarily a big soup fan, but I love their cheddar-ale soup. So I searched the web to see if I could find a good recipe for cheddar-ale soup, and I found this recipe online from another Grizzly Peak fan. I had never made soup from scratch before, but tonight I tried it out. I cooked up a batch of soup, and it wasn't too bad. It's not Grizzly Peak's soup, but it's pretty reasonable. I think I'm going to work on adapting the recipe a little bit.

My soup simmering on the stove:



There was an amusing article today in the New York Times about how how the financial community just doesn't "get" Craigslist. They don't understand why the company isn't interested in becoming a financial behemoth, but is more interested in providing a useful service to the Internet community.