Making soup isn’t all that different from building a lean startup business. In both cases you have to make, test and learn.<\/p>\n
Take for example, our journey toward creating the perfect Cream of Artichoke Soup!<\/p>\n
The first time I attempted to make artichoke soup, I bombed\u2026big time. The failure was not so much about technique as it was about the lack of effort. I hadn\u2019t always been a fan of artichoke and I didn\u2019t really know what to do with it either.<\/p>\n
However, every time I went to the grocery store or the market \u2013 especially in the fall of the year, I could never resist its bold and beautiful purple hue. So, I tried again.<\/p>\n
I went online and consulted a few recipes, gathered all of my ingredients and set out to make my own delicious version of a soup. While it\u2019s true I didn\u2019t follow all of the directions completely \u2013, I never do, it cooked up beautifully anyway.<\/p>\n
All was good until I served it to my youngster who took two slurps and proclaimed: \u2018Remind me to serve this to a man I do not love!\u2019 Ouch! One has to love our quick-witted, snarky teens. So I asked her to continue with her critique. She said that the soup would taste terrific \u2013 if only the \u201cgrass\u201d was removed.<\/p>\n
She was referring to the stringiness of the artichoke. I had not chopped the artichoke petals finely enough before putting them into the kettle. Even after blending and adding cream, the soup\u2019s consistency still wasn\u2019t smooth enough, so I desperately needed to run the contents through a strainer.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure there are better ways of perfecting this technique and also better ways of avoiding this as a professional chef, but hey, I\u2019m not one. I grabbed the strainer from the cupboard, along with two bowls and soup and poured the contents through the strainer, keeping only what was good. I repeated this two more times until I got the desired consistency and a smile from my daughter, indicating that all was good. My daughter now says she\u2019d be happy to serve up this soup to a man whom she does love.<\/p>\n
Pretty easy advice, huh? It’s funny how you can even apply the same advice to business. We\u2019ve since made this soup dozens of times. We\u2019ve finally gotten it right and the outcome is always the same\u2026Simply Souperlicious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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