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[lisamoe]

I used to make a couple of kinds of soup. Pretty much beef vegetable whenever I had leftover pot roast, and chicken noodle when I remembered to buy frozen noodles. I have been making a lot of other soups recently though. My Mom brought me a soup cookbook, and though I haven't followed the recipe exactly on any of them I've been inspired by looking through it.

Tonight I made roasted vegetable soup. I cut up butternut squash, zucchini, yellow squash, red onion, yellow bell pepper, potato, tomato and mushrooms and tossed the vegetables with olive oil, rosemary and fresh garlic. Then I roasted them in the oven til they were soft, put about 2/3 of the roasted vegetables in the blender with some chicken stock and pureed it, put that all in a pan and put the rest of the vegetable chunks, a tablespoon of flour, a few more cups of chicken stock and some salt and pepper and simmered it for a while. It turned out really well.

Last week I made a cream of onion with both sweet yellow and green onions and that was pretty nice too as a side dish. The week before that I made this soup that's kind of hard to describe, but it was kind of a cream of mushroom and celery, but processed so that there weren't any big chunks of either. I thought it had a very nice flavor. I think next I'm trying a cream of avocado, which sounds a little odd I guess, but it looks like a good recipe.

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[angel-ent.livejournal.com]

I belong to a LJ group called Veggie_Diaries where members post all types of recipes. Some of them a little wild, but a lot are things I and the boys would actually eat. Very good, yet most of the times, healthy and delicious. Which very rarely goes hand in hand IMO.

Can you give the receipe for the roasted veg soup? I am trying to incorporate more veggies into our diets without inflicting too much torture on the boys. Anything that can be blended so I don't get too many questions about "What is that??" and "Ewwwww, I don't want to eat that!".

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I am a fly by the seat of my pants cook, so that sort of IS the recipe. I can tell you that I used one of each of the squashes, half a good sized onion, a whole tomato, a few teaspoons of minced garlic, a couple of medium potatoes and maybe 4-5 mushrooms and I used a whole large can of Swanson's chicken broth. The seasonings, I have no idea, just what looked like enough to me. I imagine this soup would be faboo with whatever vegetables you had handy, but I would include at least one big squash like a butternut or acorn squash as kind of the base for it. it would probably be good with vegetable broth too, but I like chicken myself.

[angel-ent.livejournal.com]

Totally different subject, but I have been meaning to ask you about something Denise mentioned to me. She had said your mom used a free on-line foreign language program for your kids. Something similar to Rosetta Stone, but FREE. Do you know what it is or can ask your mom about it? I want to learn Spanish and think it would be something great for the boys to also learn. Any info you can give would be greatly appreciated.

[oldmanpops.livejournal.com]

You should make the avacado soup Sunday to join the trend. According to the California Avacodo Council (according to NPR news) Sunday will be the greatest consumption day of the year for avacodos.

Of course, this is because of guacomole at SuperBowl parties.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

I DID make avocado soup Sunday!

[mstami.livejournal.com]

I love soups! I make them whenever the family will let me. They are all kind of picking about their soup consumption.

All those recipes sound great. The cream of avocado sounds really good. Let me know how that one turns out.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

I posted about the avocado last night.