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List #12: Soups on Regular rotation

My pumpkin soup – July 2008

This is another post about soup for Julie and Tobia’s Cool Bloggers Autumn Soup Challenge. When the kids were younger, we would have pumpkin and red lentil soup with toasted cheese sandwiches at least every one to two weeks. It was my easy go-to meal. No recipe … I would eyeball everything in lieu of actual measurements and top up the water at the end if it got too thick. If I were feeling fancy, I’d add a bit of cummin. I hardly make that soup at all now—I think G had enough of it to last him a lifetime, but now I’m back on dairy and can have the toasted cheese sandwiches, I feel like it needs to make a comeback. In the meantime, here are the soups that have been on rotation at our house over the last year or so:

I always like to have some kind of bread with my soup. What do you like to eat with soup? Do you cook soup often?


Comments

8 responses to “List #12: Soups on Regular rotation”

  1. I love love love soup.
    Just added three of these soups to my to try list. Not sure I will ever get through that though.

    I want to try some bread soup. Never done that but my grandpa talked about it. Obviously it was something they ate during the war when everything was rare and stale bread needed to used up. I found a recipe of the 50s in my late grandmas cook book. I think I try that one before going with fancier bread soup variations.

    I often don’t need to eat bread with my soup. I rather have another bowl. But the husband always wants/needs bread if I serve soup

    1. You must try your gradma’s recipe and report back.

  2. These all look REALLY good. The sausage, chard, and lentils looks like it might make my husband very happy.

    I like good sourdough bread with my soup. We had soup twice this week. One day it was tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches, and another day it was split pea and ham soup. My husband couldn’t eat the grilled cheese, my daughter is vegetarian, so there were compromises made (Meaning, I made them something else.)

    1. We pretty much only buy sourdough bread, so yummy! It’s hard when you have different dietry requirements in the family.

  3. These recipes sound really good, lemon chicken and chickpeas? Yum. I do not ever make soup from scratch. I don’t think it would fill my big eaters up enough. I am also limited by GF foods and I typically don’t venture from the tried and true recipes.

    1. I always liek to have enough protein in the soups I make so it’s a bit more filling. GF cooking can be tough.

  4. We LOVE soup around here and I am so happy it’s soup season. We make soups/stews multiple times a week during the colder months! I also love some fresh bread with soup.

    Not sure if you indepedently found the Detox Lentil Soup or if you bookmarked it when I shared it last year, but it’s in rotation A LOT over here 🙂

    1. I’ve been making the Lentil Detox soup since we before COVID, so we must have happened upon it independently.