Sisterly Love

Ever feel like your much-needed girl-dates are missing some key ingredients?

Sign up with SoupSisters for the perfect recipe: it’s an evening away, a chance to give back, and it allows you to catch up with your soul sisters.

With chapters across Canada, SoupSisters welcomes groups of women to spend a night out in a local cooking environment to prepare and bottle soup for those in need. In Toronto, the recipients are at Interval House, a home for abused woman and children. 

Dish Cooking Studio, the popular cooking venue in Toronto, is home to one of two SoupSisters programs in the city. The other one is offered at the impressive Great Cooks on Eight restaurant/culinary centre. On one Sunday and Monday night a month respectively, each location welcomes a group of women (minimum of 12, max of 30 to 35) to prep, cook, bottle, and label soups from recipes provided by the charity.

A fee of $50 per person covers the cost of all ingredients, kitchen facilities, chef (to facilitate), kitchen staff, your meal and wine at the event and a keepsake tote bag to take home with you. You’ll have a chance to catch up with your besties as you chop, sauté, and slice. Then, while your soup is simmering, you’ll sit down as a group to your own meal (of soup, of course), and celebrate doing something good with some well-deserved vino.

Started by a Calgary mother, SoupSisters has locations in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Calgary, Ottawa and Kitchener-Waterloo, and has even inspired a male counterpart, BrothBrothers which is also offered once a month at Great Cooks on Eight. Bookings for SoupSisters go quickly. Dates in early 2012 are currently available, but will go soon.

So if you’ve been looking for a recipe that includes your girlfriends, wine and food, you may have cooked up the perfect plan. Tested by Alison R.