Bread Bowl Fanatic

About two years ago, we came across a great recipe for bread bowls (a glorified dinner roll large enough to scoup out the middle and fill with soup). Angie found the recipe in Heather Gillespie's blog and decided to make it for our family dinner. She filled the bowls with our favorite Baked Potato Soup (which should be the subject of an upcoming post). Ben immediately fell in love--the bread was delicious and his favorite part was when he found out he could eat the bowl after eating the soup inside. Later, when we invited friends over to share in this wonderful dinner, Ben made a point of telling the guests that they wouldn't have to clean up their bowl because it would be gone. Since that time, every time we have soup Ben asks if we are going to have bread bowls. His favorite bowl comes from Heather's recipe. However, if we have not had time to make the "official" bowls, he looks around for a reasonable substitute. This past week Angie tried out a new potato soup recipe. Of course, Ben asked if we would have bread bowls. He was not deterred when we said no, but just looked around and saw a bag of dinner rolls on the counter. He selected a roll, hollowed it out, and filled it with soup. The roll was not very big--just large enough to fit only a couple of spoon fulls of soup. Ben quickly emptied the roll and asked for more soup. After repeating this pattern several times, I just set the pan of soup next to Ben and let him do the filling. Angie and I watched as he continued to fill and empty his bread bowl about a dozen times before he finally ate the bowl to complete the meal.