Awesome Soup for Scaring English Cricketers

Look out England....Ragin' Rizwan Cheema of Canada is comin' to getcha.

And what a great day it is today...A few hours ago the Canadian cricket team managed to frighten the pants off the English cricket team during their warm-up match for the 2011 World Cup.  England managed to eke out a win by only 16 runs. 

Let's have a quick look at the match: here are the bowling stats:


Davison! Davison! Davison!


"Handsome Devil" Davison:  1 for 32
Osinde:  2 scalps for 42
Chohan: 3 scalps for 34
Baidwan : 3 for 50
Rao: 1 for 38

And not only that...Strauss only scored 1 run before being caught, Pieterson got clean-bowled, and Wright was out for a duck!  In the end, the English scored only 243 runs!  Well done, Canadian Chaps!

When it was the Canadians turn to bat, things looked ominous indeed, until Ragin' Rizwan Cheema beat the beejeebus out of the English bowlers with his enormous, fat 93 runs, and Khurram Chohan scored a very pretty 44, which must have given the big bad English a heart attack!  Canada came so close to giving England the beating of its life, losing only by a mere 16 runs!  Beauty! 

Now we Canadians do have a reputation for being polite, considerate, and somewhat meek.  However, we have a secret weapon when we need to be aggressive and put a little fear into our opponents.  That's right...we have SOUP!

Ragin' Rizwan after eating soup.  If I were English, I would be very afraid.

 Not stuff that comes from a can, no no no!  We make soup from scratch that's full of goodness, vitamins and flavour and it will absolutely put some metaphorical  hair on your chest!  YES!  YES! YES!  Want to frighten an Englishman with your sports ability?  Want to make a Sri Lankan shiver in fright? A West Indian wither in fear?  A New Zealander nervous?  A South African suffer?  Well, then, this soup is for you.  Go grab your apron, macho man, and lets make some old-fashioned soup, like your memere used to make. I said GO!

Soup

Make broth first.  Get two soup chickens (ie chicken soup bones) , a bay leaf, a carrot, 2 celery stalks, an onion, 5 black peppercorns and two cloves.  Put them all in a big pot with lots of water, bring to a boil, then simmer on low heat for at least an hour.  Skim any foam that comes off the top.  Cool the broth, then strain it. 

Soup Proper
Ingredients
1 onion, finely chopped
1 carrot, finely chopped
5 cloves garlic, very finely chopped
2 stalks celery, finely chopped
about 2 cups of raw chopped chicken
1 bay leaf
chopped green chilies to taste
chopped green and red bell pepper (capsicum)
chopped green or red cabbage
chopped zucchini or courgette
chopped spinach
chopped coriander
juice of 2 or 3 limes
salt
black pepper
home-made chicken broth
oil for cooking

In a big pot, heat some oil and fry the chopped onion, carrot and celery until it's a little bit brown.
Add the chicken, and brown it.  Don't worry if it sticks to the bottom; the broth you add later will remove it.
Add the broth and the rest of the ingredients, bring to a boil, then simmer for about an hour on low heat.
If you want a heartier soup, add some uncooked rice and a handful of brown lentils, and cook for about 45 minutes or until the rice and lentils are cooked through.  It's up to you.  Also add any other vegetables that you might like.  Cauliflower will give it a very rich, deep flavour.

Serve with a nice thick slice of bread and a side of attitude. 

There you go.  Soup for turning mild-mannered Canadians into raging machines of cricket destruction, striking fear into the oppositions batsmen and bowlers alike.  Now let's see our lovely Canadian lads eat more soup and make all the other teams in the World Cup wish they'd never been born!  Go Canada!

Happy Cricket!  Happy Soup and Happy Fear-making!   GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!