Yesterday, Robert Birming wrote about a Swedish tradition of eating pea soup and pancakes on a Thursday (prior to fasting on Friday) a tradition I can get behind wholeheartedly. Especially as, during the winter months with snow on the ground and bitterly cold temperatures outside, I love to make soup at least once a week.
Not only because it’s cheap, filling, soul-warming food but because it’s another way to get the veggies in. And while I don’t do pea soup nearly enough, I do have 3-4 favourites I make in rotation or, when I can grab the veggies themselves.
There’s red pepper and tomato soup, like we had last night for dinner with a country loaf and vegan cheddar. Also leak and potato, another simple easy soup to make. Another one of my favourites is roasted cauliflower soup, which is simplicity itself to make.
The fun thing about veggie soups is you can pretty much roast any root vegetable, throw in some lentils, pasta, or pulses for extra body with some good stock and voila, you have an incredibly healthy dinner.
And you, are you a soup lover and do you make your own, from scratch?
𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧
Alexandra, I do love soup, and I always make my own from scratch. I don’t use a recipe; I throw in whatever meat and/or vegetable leftovers I have handy. I make my own broth, too. I love the low-sodium content and delightful flavors. Now I want to go make some soup!
Ooo, another soup lover, good to hear. Ah, and another person who wings it. I love doing throw-together soup like that. You can never go that far wrong, right?
And there’s something special about saving bones or veggie peelings and making broth out of them. I never understand why people throw them away. What a waste.