What’s great about this soup is that it’s an easy to make. If you need to pull together a quick soup for lunch or dinner, it doesn’t get easier than this.  This soup can be as simple or as fancy as you like. And, the coconut milk, provides the taste and velvet consistency every creamy soup deserves.  So, if you’re looking for a great lunch option during the chilly winter season, gives this one a try.  It’s a crowd pleaser around the family hearth.

And, you know what tastes great with it? A lil garlic cheese toast. We seriously had to dunk it in! This is how Saturday lunch ought to be…souper simple.

So, lunch will never be the same again, thanks to this wonderful soup we made today. I found it through one of my Facebook groups called ‘Rambling Epicure, Mastering the art of Food Writing’.  In that post, it was mentioned that a wonderful soup could be found at a Portland, Oregon based restaurant called ‘Kachka‘ so I had to try it.

Okay, so let’s get to what’s in this soup: really simple ingredients. There’s cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes and oats. That’s pretty much it. While the recipe calls for water, I just used one of my veggie broths and that is more than enough. Now, the soup itself is actually quite rustic — almost like a stew, which is fine. If you check the recipe on here, the end result looks the same.  However, I didn’t feel like eating chunky veggies, so I used my hand blender to quickly blend the soup smooth for a silky finish.

This soup requires no milk because  the pureed potatoes and oats provides the smoothness. There is one thing to take care to consider: adding in the oats.  Like lentils, the oats tend to go directly to the bottom of the pot and cook quick quickly.  So do be sure to stir constantly and remove from the heat once you have thickness.  This way you avoid any scorching. If  you do scorch the bottom a bit, only stir the top of the soup, remove the top contents and stir in a bit more lemon juice and it should be fine.

*This recipe courtesy of The Kitchn

This quick and easy cold soup will change your mind. Just blend all the ingredient together and chill.

Now, this soup is a kitchen cleaner soup. We’ve added in everything, from leftover eggplant and zucchini to canned tomatoes. It’s a perfect meal — even on a tight budget. As we’re still living under confinement due to Covid-19, it makes sense to still eat as many comforting, immunity-boosting, healthy meals as possible. Give this one a try. Stay healthy and eat well!

So pucker up because this Sausage, Yellow Lentil, Spinach and Rice soup has so much lemon in it, you will want to kiss someone!  In keeping with how you can make staples work for you, this is the perfect soup for using all the ingredients you already have in your pantry.  And, our in-house testers give this soup two thumbs up! And, if you want it vegan, or vegetarian, just remove the sausage and use a vegetable broth! So eat up and find that loved one near by and plant a nice wet one on them!

Actually, we made a soup about a week ago of just chicken and noodles in broth — easy, quick meals that my kids still love when staving off colds. We’d been eating it for a few days, and I knew they would not want anymore, but refreezing or worst, throwing it out were not options. Remember what we say: nothing goes to waste.

So for lunch, we heated up the noodles and chicken, added more water and loaded up on spices. But we also added yellow lentils, potatoes, spinach and my favorite secret ingredients — turmeric, lime juice and cilantro. It turned into a completely different meal and nothing was left after lunch. They say necessity is the mother of invention, so we’re down with getting more creative. Give it a try and let us know how you improved your version!

We recently served this soup at a tasting, and it was a huge hit! Want to have a little extra fun with the kiddies in the kitchen? Throw in some alphabet pasta! Try it and watch just how much the little ones enjoy it!

This is exactly the way your kitchen should smell in the early morning or lunchtime or dinner! Try it and watch just how much the little ones enjoy it!