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Bee made a fine carrot soup the other day from a recipe in a magazine.  Essentially, it was a bunch of carrots sliced, sautéed shallots, salt, chicken broth and caraway seed.
Stupidly, the recipe was only for two people.  Who the hell ever creates a recipe for only two people? The most common denominator of servings for a recipe is four or more. But two?

The only reason I'm complaining about this is we happened to have guests and upon finishing the recipe by adding chicken broth and pureeing the sautéed carrots, shallots and caraway seeds, we discovered there wasn't enough to feed out quests.  It was mighty tasty though. We were tempted to eat it all before they got there, but Bee accidentally mentioned the soup when our guests called to say they were going to be late.  Now we had to share.

 So, we thinned it with water and added some other spices like mustard and paprika to compensate for the watered down taste.  We let it simmer while waiting for the guests. 
The soup was a big success; even in it's watered down state.