Soup-present.

Because I had cooked up a huge pot of “unstuffed pepper” soup and the one (gay) (Colombian) grad student who I know was preparing to defend his dissertation, I messaged him if he wanted to pick up some soup so he could have a few quick and easy dinners from that that coming week.

And, he did want some, so he did come by and pick some up.

Now, the soup is the same ingredients as a stuffed pepper – tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and ground beef – so the idea is that you cook up some white rice and pour the soup over all that and it tastes like a stuffed pepper, only it’s a heck of a lot quicker to cook than actual stuffed peppers since you don't have to go stuff all of them individually and bake then in shallow pans.

And, he texts me, and he says he loves it, but he decided to cut up pieces of ham and cheese and tortillas into it.

Like, that makes two types of meat in it – ground beef and ham – and why would he have tortillas anyways, I thought, since I thought that (Colombians) liked arepas.

I guess if it works for him?

But, it’s nothing that I would do, and I told him that he was desecrating my soup.