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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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[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.