soup's on and at this event it will not
only warm you up and fill you up but
will lift you up and the people in need
in our community it's the 20th annual
cots soup City fundraiser
I am honored to co-host the event with
my lovely wife Taryn we've been doing it
for almost a decade
Chris bellies bakery and pizzeria is one
of more than a dozen restaurants
participating oh what's cookin what are
you serving up tell us about Chris belly
chef first of all welcome good thanks
for having me this morning we're gonna
be making a minestrone soup okay for the
event here and today I just brought some
pizza some salad that we do oh you never
just bring pizza or I mean you bring you
you guys really put on the dog as the
saying goes I mean you're you know it's
like gourmet
yeah we have a wide variety of items
here for you guys so I'm gonna go into
the soup here okay let me get out of
your way I come over here out on the
Left yeah we're just gonna make a
minestrone soup here we always start off
a little olive oil in the pot there and
just a bunch of vegetables here we have
some onion some celery carrot some
garlic I see you're not really measuring
you're just kind of like you you're
eyeballing we're eyeballing it this is a
cool thing about minestrone is that it's
really just a hearty vegetable soup and
whatever vegetables are on season or
where are you having the fridge you can
use in this recipe and that's the cool
thing about it here is there any way
that you can possibly improve upon
mirepoix or as mirepoix just me replying
this that French staple is goes and
everything you cannot honestly the base
of a lot of great soups but yeah we have
some peas here I'm no genius but I'm
gonna guess that you're gonna add a
bunch of the rest of the stuff that's on
the table right absolutely all this all
right while you're doing that let's
bring in Asha morale Ferguson our good
friend good to see you good to see you
too let's tell us all about the event
and you know why Taryn and I love
hosting it and why it matters to the
community soup city is an amazing event
and it's an opportunity for us to be
able to provide support for the many
families that we serve that have
experienced homelessness so cuts
what are you Scott's cat is an emergency
shelter and also a housing support
provider so we also we provide housing
services housing support for families we
provide permanent supportive housing we
also develop housing as well so cots
coalition in temporary shelters
coalition on temporary shelter although
our name is a bit of a misnomer because
we don't focus solely on temporary
shelter okay let's talk about the event
itself now if you are a fan of soup
mm-hmm this is the place to be because
there's multiple levels at the theater
absolutely and literally from station to
station to station to station and then
upstairs station to station absolutely
and you can go from dill pickle soup
from Hamtramck to like minestrone here
and tortilla soup there's there's an
endless array of soup and awfully levels
at the gym theater we take over the
entire space we have entertainment on
all three floors we have soup from all
over the place in a few small places
there's various you know if we have a
charity casino on the lower level
there's raffle baskets and all of it to
support the families that we serve so
how much are tickets and where can
people get them tickets are $50 for
general admission we have a VIP ticket
for $100 that also provides an opera and
opportunity for a VIP reception they can
get them online at WWE troy org and your
band
we have Alexandra's najuk and Friends is
hosting the Jazz but the Jazz floor
upstairs and then the Jerry Rose band is
actually hosting in the main lab the
Jerry Ross man I mean if you've ever
been to an event where they played they
really really get after it and the
people have a good time plus then surely
do her singing as well sir always she
always does and this year's event is
presented by LSG insurance partners
we're really appreciative of their
support in the support of all of our spa
area thank you so much
Thank You chef we're coming in and
making this we will post the recipe for
Chris bellies minestrone soup on our web
page for live in the decom again the
COTS soup City fundraiser is this
Thursday at the historic gem theater in
Detroit and you can buy tickets online
or at the door I hope to see you there
so does my wife's ashes yes everybody
wants to see we all want to see you
that's right don't make the recipe
forget the recipe just go and have it
there