Loyal Soup Eaters of Washington, I dedicate this soup to you. As we take the fresh, sweet, local carrots and puree them with our homemade peanut butter, we think of you, fellow Snowmaggedon survivors. As we puree it up with a pinch of chili and freshly squeezed lime juice, we have you, fellow Washingtonians, in our minds. But most of all, we dedicate this peanut-buttery, sweet, slightly spicy, creamy, and deliciously smooth soup to you, Bob Ryan, Doug Hill, Sue Palka, and the other brave meteorologists. No matter what time we turned on our TV’s – 3:00 AM, 7:30 PM, noon – there you were. In front of your Doppler-5000 Weathertron-Atari-Nintendo-Radar-Systematic-Thingies – telling us how much snow was coming. Keeping us calm, yet prepared. Fearful, yet knowledgeable of the amount of milk, eggs, and bread we should buy. We don’t know when you bathe, sleep, or eat, and frankly, we don’t care. Just keep those forecasts coming. This soup’s for you.

Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner had a bit of a tough time last week when presenting the economic stimulus plan to Congress. Silly Mr. Geithner forgot to serve this soup up to the senators before presenting the plan! Things would have gone completely different! Barney Frank would have said, “Mr. Geithner you are a genius. If you can bring together carrots, almonds, mint, ginger, cinnamon, all spice, cumin, and more in such a delicious and unique way, surely you must know what you are doing with the taxpayer’s money.” John McCain would have followed with, “I agree with Mr. Frank. You can have $3 trillion for all I care. Just give me more of this soup. I cannot get enough of it. I have never had anything like it, my friends. It is smooth, yet thick. Light enough to be an appetizer, but filling enough to be a light meal. Bravo, Mr. Geithner. Bravo.” And then the markets would have had massive gains and the world would have been saved. Wow – considering all that, I cannot believe he forgot to bring this soup! Darn it, Timothy!

An estimated four million people are coming to town to taste this insanely unique soup. No one from Virginia is going to be allowed into DC, which seems a bit extreme, but people, we’ve got to control the crowds coming to eat this soup. People are going insane over this soup’s combo of sweet potatoes, natural peanut butter, dash of garlic and red pepper flakes (to give it a tickle in the ribs)and red bell peppers. Nutty, if you will. Some people think that the estimates might be too high, but with its creamy, non-dairy richness, we need to be prepared for this soup to attract record setting crowds. Seriously, this guy in my neighborhood rented out his apartment for $25,000 to someone who’s coming into town to eat this soup. I hope he remembers to order by 11:00 on Wednesday. How frustrating would THAT be??