It has been weeks maybe MONTHS since everyone in our house was healthy. It’s one cold after flu after pink eye after bronchitis after the other. It seems ALL we’ve been eating is soup. Which is ok with me because I LOVE SOUP.
Like, I think about it and I think, I love soup! Could it be the perfect food?
When I’m up for it, I love to make a huge pot of copycat Olive Garden minestrone. I make this all the time. And mine is better than Olive Garden’s. But I haven’t really felt like chopping up all those veggies and stuff lately so we’ve been eating mostly canned.
My current favorite (and by favorite I mean I am kind of addicted): Amy’s Fire Roasted Southwestern Vegetable soup. It feels SO good on my throat. And is really so flavorful for a canned soup.
Last night I went out with some friends to Pikk’s Tavern, downtown Valpo and I couldn’t wait to find out what their soup of the day was.
I was seriously bummed when all they had was broccoli cheddar, gumbo, or seafood chowder. But I just couldn’t NOT get soup, so I figured I’d try the broccoli cheddar (their soup of the day.) It was WAY different than I expected. It was amazing. Pureed and spicy. And oh my gosh I need some right now.
So, back to the cans, I am worried I’m going to get burned out on my Amy’s Fire Roasted soup. Please let me know what your favorites are. I need to update my cupboards!
Do you like soup? What is your favorite you can buy at the store? Do you have a favorite recipe?
PLEASE SHARE. I eat soup for breakfast. Really.
Stephanie is Mom to three boys & a baby girl in Valparaiso, IN and blogs daily at Adventures In Babywearing . Follow her on Twitter- she’s babysteph .
November 20th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Shane made a potato leek soup for dinner last night that was very good, but my favorite of his is french onion! I can get you the recipe for either, but really, I should just get him to make you some.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I seriously laughed out loud when I saw your link to Twitter about this post. Breakfast soup. Cracks me up! Like I said, I love the lentil one from Amy’s. And I just made Barefoot Contessa’s Lentil Vegetable Soup-it is AH-MAZING.
Link to Recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/lentil-vegetable-soup-recipe/index.html
November 20th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
i LOVE soup, too. i’m baking potatoes today, so i can make soup tomorrow to eat sunday. (because isn’t it always better the next day?!) potato leek sounds amazing….and i love some kind of tortilla with roasted red pepper soup i’ve had somewhere downtown. (bistro 157??)
November 20th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
Mmmmmm, soup!
I recently wrote a little post about how much I love soup, too! One of my very favorites is a rich, hearty mushroom soup: http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1661179
Also, I just discovered THIS recently… a blog post with hundreds and hundreds of favorite recipes!!! I will be working my way down the list for the next few years, ha ha.
http://annamariahorner.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-want-soup-and-im-willing-to-pay-for.html
November 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
MMmmm… soup. I’m a soup lover as well, and my girls are too (well, my 4 and 6yr olds. My 1yr old has yet to experience the loveliness). I’m so glad they are because I grew up on soup, from scratch, all winter long.
Our current fav is potato soup. I hate to say this, but I LOVE my potato soup. Isn’t that an awful thing to say? It’s a combo of redskin potato, cream and rivol (family thing, but they’re tiny little dumplings in the soup). Serious heaven in a bowl.
Next fav is chili, cinninnati style. Umm… I just did a tomato bisque that was good, from canned garden tomatoes. Yum! I found the recipe for black bean soup from good housekeeping and then made the recipe mine…. um, mine was waaaaay better.
Needless to say, we’re a soup family as well.
November 21st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
wolfgang puck makes some really good canned soups. when i need canned that is what i grab for. but this winter i think my soup pot is magic or something. i have been making a ton of soups, it seems easy, and they are coming out great! here are some recent soup posts i have put up over on my blog (including recipes)
http://woowoomama.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/i-still-eat/
http://woowoomama.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/a-few-things/
101cookbooks.com often has awesome, easy enough, soup recipes that i use as my jumping off point.
so yes, i love soup. i have been eyeing that cookbook - have you heard of it?
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Soup-All-New-Vegetarian-Recipes/dp/0393332578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258831078&sr=1-1
hmmmmmmmm….
November 21st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I love soup, too. I wonder if it’s a Northern thing? When we lived in San Diego, I didn’t crave soup like I do now.
My current favorite is Lasagna Soup:
http://lovewell.blogspot.com/2008/03/cure-for-march-madness.html
That link also has a link to a Tortilla Soup I really want to try. It’s from a friend who grew up in New Mexico, so she ought to know good Tortilla Soup.
November 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I LOOOOVE soup. Planning on making beef stew AND potato soup this week, before being overwhelmed with Thanksgiving goodness. My two favorites, though, are Italian Turkey Soup and Broccoli Cheese (I don’t usually like what they have in restaurants for broccoli cheese, but I LOVE this).
Beef stew: http://www.vanderbiltwife.com/2009/10/family-recipe-fridays-beef-stew.html
Potato Soup: http://www.vanderbiltwife.com/2009/08/family-recipe-fridays-basic-soups.html
Italian Turkey Soup: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Italian-Turkey-Soup-102435
Broccoli and Cheese: http://www.vanderbiltwife.com/2007/12/my-favorite-soup-i-have-become.html
Oh my goodness, Kelly, lasagna soup sounds so good! Going to go check it out!
November 21st, 2009 at 7:15 pm
I love soup too! But usually only get a hankering for it in the fall and winter.
Anyway, my FAVOURITE these days is the most delicious butternut squash soup you’ve EVER had. It’s got some kick to it and it’s so smooth (thanks to the delicious white wine you add in). check it out: http://greenjellybellies.blogspot.com/2008/11/butternut-squash-soup-recipe.html
Also I make I have an incredible recipe for a Spicy African Yam soup (it’s got peanut butter and pineapples in it…if that doesn’t make you curious, I don’t know what will!).
November 21st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Soup is good food! I like Campbell’s Select Southwestern Chicken. Check out http://www.foodiemama.com. I’ve got a pumpkin bisque and a chicken tortilla soup on there that will knock your socks off and my friend Ilina has her buttnernut squash soup on there. SO GOOD!
November 21st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I LOVE Campbell’s Chunky Sirloin Burger and veggies soup. I ate some for dinner tonight
I make shrimp soup - it’s veggie soup with shrimp and bacon. It’s so. incredibly. yummy.
December 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
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