Oven Soup

What do you do when, while cooking a pot of homemade chicken soup (still in the 'put raw chicken  and seasonings into 6 cups of water and bring to a boil' stage) on the gas stove, your propane runs out?  Well, first you curse yourself for not keeping better track of the level in the propane tank.  Then you realize that the last delivery, which was more than the previous delivery, lasted about 1 month less.  So you reprimand your daughters for 1) taking hot showers that are many times longer than they need to be, and 2) using the clothes dryer during the summer because they are too lazy to walk out to the clothesline and hang up their laundry.

And then, and only then, you call the propane company and request a delivery, but not an emergency delivery, which would cost extra.  Just a delivery in the next few days, whenever they will be in your area.  Darn teenage daughters can suffer through cold showers for a day or two.  They can also lug a basket of wet clothes (washed on cold, as most should be) out to the clothesline.  It's good exercise.

After that, you figure out what to do with your chicken you were going to make into a pot of soup.  You have the brilliant revelation that you have a cast iron dutch oven, out in the camper.  A dutch oven that is almost as big as the soup pot on the stove with the chicken in it.  A dutch oven that can be used in your oven, not just in a campfire.  Because your oven, a double wall oven, actually, is electric and will still work despite the lack of propane.

Problem solved: retrieve dutch oven from camper, dump contents of soup pot into dutch oven, put on the lid, guess what temp you should set the oven to, and proceed with cooking soup for dinner.

Oven soup.  Necessity is the mother of invention  :0)