Soup Day
It was a good day to make soup. In fact, any day is a good day to make soup.
Every month or so I clean out my freezer. I pull everything out, take a good look at it and decide if it goes back in or stays out to be made into something yummy. If it stays out, I start a list of soups I want to make. I never use a recipe for this activity, I just wing it and it always turns out. I just kind of make a list of ingredients that I think would go together and pull a few things from the pantry that would round out the flavor profile I was trying to include. I get the insta pot going and the stove to move things along. I used a can of jack fruit to stand in for chicken in the first one. It chops and looks exactly like chicken but it's a unripened fruit. Learn more about jack fruit here. Soup is my go-to winter lunch. I find it helpful to have at least 4 kinds in rotation so I don't get kitchen soup fatigue. AND I get my servings of vegetables in as well.
Pumpkin Lentil Saffron
Ramps
Pumpkin
Garlic
Carrots
Red Lentils
Moroccan Spice
Saffron
Sour cream
Croutons
Salt and pepper
Faux Chicken Soup
Ramps from last spring that I want to use up
Corn
Dried Asian mushrooms- reconstituted
A can of jackfruit I picked up from Trader Joe
Rice noodles
cilantro
Green onions