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[liminalmemories21]

Hi Lim! Here is my very very late nice ask for you:

Since I know you love soup and it has been cold af up here, what is your favourite soup and how do you typically like eating it (like with bread or crackers or rice or whatnot)? If you also have a recipe please send 👀

I hope you have a lovely day 💜

Do I have soup recipes? Listen, if I didn't think my partner would stage a revolt we would eat soup about three times a week.

So, what I eat with soups depends a little on how much protein is in the soup - for example, a vegetable soup I'll serve with bread and a cheese plate (or some variation on grilled cheese - cheesy naan, quesadillas, etc). But, a hearty soup with meat (or beans) in it doesn't need the additional protein, so that's just served with bread. Always with bread (and salted butter) to dip in the soup, and mop the bowl at the end.

For most pureed vegetable soups I don't really have a recipe. It's a general ratio of 2lb of whatever vegetable (cauliflower, sweet potato, zucchini, pumpkin, carrot) + 1 onion sauteed in olive oil or butter + 4-5 cloves garlic + 4-6 cups liquid (water/broth/whatever). Simmer 20-30 minutes and then puree. And then you customize.

Zucchini + basil + lemon (add the lemon and basil after everything has cooked and you're at the pureeing stage)

Cauliflower + parmesan (stir in the parmesan after you've pureed - about 1/3 cup)

Carrot/Sweet Potato with ginger - saute the ginger with the onion and garlic - add in some coconut milk as your liquid

Red Pepper/Tomato - roast 3-4 red peppers and remove the skin, add in 1-2 cans diced tomatoes + some liquid (start with maybe 2 cups and add as needed). Some red pepper flakes are nice with this too.

Heartier soups that I love

Smitten Kitchen's Beef & Barley - this freezes so well, make a huge batch and then freeze it in portions and you have a really easy meal in reserve. I always add mushrooms to mine, because I love mushrooms, but I know mushrooms can be divisive.

Curried Chicken & Rice - sub some of the liquid for coconut milk (I always have the kind that's a dairy milk substitute in the cartons in my fridge, so that's what I use). Do not skimp on the herbs at the end, they make it come alive.

Creamy Chicken & Couscous

Chicken Pot Pie Soup

Colcannon Soup (I usually serve with with brown bread and cheddar)

Spaghetti-Os - you can make as much of the base soup as you like and freeze it in portions, and also make as many of the meatballs as you like and freeze them separately and then just defrost the soup and drop the frozen meatballs into it when it comes up to a boil - you'll need to cook them a little longer from frozen - the meatballs are also good in other things)

Turkey Meatball/Italian Wedding Soup - I would recommend homemade chicken stock for this if you have it, because that's the base flavor note here, so it's worth using the good stuff