(bright music) - So I bought a cauldron,
a very big cauldron, which means, of course obviously, it is time to make some very big soup. I absolutely have favorite
recipes for soups and stews that are my usual go-tos, but there's one that I have never yet
had the chance to try, stone soup. It's a pretty popular
fairytale and children's story, and the basic premise, in
case you're unfamiliar, a weary traveler wanders into town. They have no money, they have no food, but they have a clever plan. So what they do is they take a stone from off the side of the road. They put it in their little cook pot, and they add some water. They make a little fire underneath, and eventually someone
wanders by and asks, "What are you doing? "What are you making?" The traveler says, "I'm making "the most delicious magical stone soup. "It is almost done, "but I feel like it's
still missing something. Hey you know, I see that
you have some onions there. "Would you mind sparing
one just to add in? "I think that's gonna be the perfect thing "to finish this off." The person is intrigued about this stone soup
magic nonsense, and "sure." At the cost of just an onion,
they hand over their onion. Eventually, someone else wanders
by, but they have carrots, and the next person has potatoes, and it continues so on and
so on until, of course, there is actually a fantastic,
delicious soup bubbling away, and everybody gets a bowl. They all share. It's delicious. And then there's music and
there's dancing and celebrating, and it's all very lovely
and wholesome. (chuckles) There's a whole bunch of children's books that are variants on this
story, and even other media. Like there's a Heather Dale song that is a reenactment specific variant, which is so cool. One sec.
♪ The stone is in the kettle ♪ ♪ The water's on the boil ♪ ♪ The work is always lighter ♪ ♪ When there's many hands to toil ♪ - Anyways, I think it is a sweet story, and I also think it's a
great idea for a party. What if you invited a
bunch of your friends over for some soup and said that
they had to bring something that was gonna go inside the soup? What would they bring? What interesting soup
would result out of this? Well today, dear friends,
we're gonna find out, but first I do think I want to get just a little bit more on theme, and there we go. I think that my potato dress
shall be quite appropriate for reasons that I'm sure you'll see soon. Also, I've had this for like
a year or two at this point and haven't really had the
chance to go to a lot of events. So it is way, way too squeaky
clean for a white garment. Absolutely not. Let's get it messy. So I already have my cook
pot set up and ready to go, but before we can really do much with it, we do need to get a fire going. And you know, if we're gonna go with a theme, anyways, I actually do have a flint and steel. I've never had the chance to use them, so let's give it a try. I also have a little char cloth here, which is just a a charred cloth, and a little bit of extra
tinder in some string that I pulled apart and
made a little nest here. So let's, uh, I guess,
find out if this'll work. (light upbeat dance music) Well, I got a spark. That's exciting. I'm blowing on it to try and... Come on. I got something to happen. The char cloth caught on, you know, caught a spark and did its thing. I feel like my string, my tinder, secondary tinder, isn't doing its job, probably 'cause I'm doing something wrong. (steel scratching on flint) (Morgan blowing breath) Look at my little baby fire. Okay, I think I need to
feed this for a little bit with some more leaves and
bits, but be right back. All righty, so full disclosure, it did take three char cloths. The first one that I got to go
in flames, it did fizzle out. I went and put a bunch
more leaves in there, like old, dried pile of leaves, put in there and did it again. Wasn't able to get a flame. Third time, got a flame. Had way more like light
tinder stuff in there, and so it's goin'. I'm gonna go ahead and put you down and go get some more small
sticks and stuff to toss in there to try and like keep it on flame until the big logs are
for sure, for sure caught. The fire is now blazing away nicely, and I'm gonna go ahead and let that go now for an hour or so 'cause
I don't actually want fire underneath the cook pot. What I want is like the coals that happen after it's been burning for a while. So while that is doing its thing, let's talk food, shall we? Unfortunately, I don't live near a bunch of my friends at the current moment. So I cannot have said party that I think would be a fun party, but I do
have lots of digital friends that can digitally send me some things. So let's see what they've got. - Hey Morgan, thanks for the invite. I brought you some bacon. - [Morgan] Perfect. I think this is actually
gonna go in first. - Hey Morgan, I hear you're making a stew. Here is some Spam, and here is some kimchi to add some spice and some salt. - These are gonna be so good. - I have for your consideration beans. - Noise. - I brought ginger for the soup. - This will be so good. (knife whooshing through ginger) - I bring you potatoes. - Much obliged. - Soup ingredients? Oh, I
think we can help you out. You can't have soup without an onion. - Excellent. - You said we could provide
a sauce or a protein or a vegetable, and I,
ever the overachiever, decide to provide all of those things in the form of chicken teriyaki ramen, specifically the chicken teriyaki ramen that you left at my house
last time you visited. Enjoy. - Thanks For that. - Hi, Morgan. So you asked me for an
ingredient for your soup, so I've got some typical
Dutch ingredients. It's Gouda cheese, or
as we call it, how-dak. (bag rustling) - I heard you were making a soup so I brought some, ah, my hand is sore, I brought some rice. (rice swooshing in jar) - Shit, I owe you something
for the soup, right? Right, okay. One second. (bag rustling) Here, take the HelloFresh. I don't know what's in it but you can just use whatever
ingredients you need, I guess. Yeah. Here, take it. - (chuckles) Well, thank you. HelloFresh is always fantastic, although I think that I'm gonna go ahead and make this lunch instead
of adding it to the pot. This is probably an excellent time to talk about the sponsor of
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three surprise gifts. All right, back to the soup. Now I have all my fantastic ingredients that everybody has kindly
offered to me, digitally. (chuckles) And I think this
is working out pretty well, but maybe in the spirit of, mm, there's just one thing missing, I think I'd like to do a little bit of a audience participation ingredient to come in. So I did go ahead and post on Instagram a poll asking what would you bring if you had a friend that
said, "Come on over. "I want you to bring
something to add to my soup. "I just, you know, whatever
you have works fine, "just something to make
it a little better." What would you bring? And so
let's talk about the results. You guys had so many different
things that you recommended for bringing to a party, theoretically. And I went ahead and made
a beautiful pie chart here of all of them. Now there was definitely some things that were obviously
favorites, like potatoes. Everybody loves some potatoes, but there were also a lot of things that I felt like maybe we
could combine them together, for example, tomatoes, tomato paste, and sundried tomatoes. They don't need to be separate items. They are different ingredients
that do different things, but for the sake of kind of like getting statistical averages-ish, I wanted to go ahead and
combine them together. And I tried to apply that same logic, so the onions and the
leeks and the garlic, that all went together. All the different like
flavoring type items, I put them together and made
this new gathering of items. For potatoes, there was
also like sweet potatoes and radishes and turnips and parsnips and (chuckles) a bunch of stuff. Carrots is kind of the weird one, that carrots is part of the potatoes list 'cause I feel like it's a root vegetable, but it also kind of fits well with the other vegetables category, eh. My lovely friends so far
have provided a lot of items that kind of nicely go
around the whole wheel here. I felt like there were
some major spots missing, so I did decide to kind of
take some of the big items here that you guys recommended,
like I added carrots, I added garlic, I added
just several more spices to try and make it really fit in that herb and seasonings category. And so, my final result with
kind of additional things added in I feel like
does a pretty good job of nicely roundly representing what a
community contributed stew or soup might be. I will try to include all
of the different ingredients as well as, as best as I can, the proportions in the
description down in the video. I don't imagine why anybody
would want to make this, but it might be fun to know at least. So I did in fact add all of
those extra delicious things to the soup. Thanks so much for adding that last little bit
of necessary tastiness. I have added all of my
ingredients at this point, so now we are just stirrin' and waitin'. I think it'll be maybe another
hour or so for everything to fully kind of cook
through and meld together, and then we get to give it a try. So maybe not 100% done, but I think it is at least
cooked through enough to give a try. Whew, it has been a very, very long day. I guess, let's see if it was worth it. Potatoes and rice both
seem to be cooked through, which are the ones that I was
like the most worried about. You can absolutely
taste the pork products. I really, really like the
addition of the kimchi. It was a spicy one. And like the bits of cabbage
and stuff, very good. The ramen noodles are visually odd but, as far as like
eating texture, was fine. It basically kind of
fits in with the rice. (bright music) Honestly, it is good. I could definitely understand someone being visually turned off. It is an eclectic mix of items, but I don't know, like
they work fine together. Ah, it was a very big day,
and I'm still not done 'cause I need to go
ahead and put all of that into like Tupperware containers
so that I can put some in the fridge, but most
fit in the freezer. It's both more and less
than I thought it would be like volume-wise. It's gonna be several
tasty dinners though. This actually reminds me a lot of, especially with the ramen, it reminds me a lot of meals
that I would have as a kid where my parents would take
ramen and add, you know, various vegetables and meat
that we, whatever we had in the fridge, and just kind
of make it work. (chuckles) This feels very similar. (birds chirping) (frogs ribbiting) All right, I think the
frogs are telling me that it's time to say goodnight. Thank you guys so much for joining me on something that I've
always wanted to do. It was very fun, very silly. Would do again, although with actual, like physically present friends. Like it would be a good time. (bouncy upbeat music)
