Warm Your Body and Soul With Soup

It is pouring down rain today and cold enough to make my bones ache. On days like these (and most other winter days) all I really want is a hot bowl of soup!!  Not to mention that soup is loaded with health benefits, usually pretty inexpensive to make, and makes great leftovers.

Plus, once you have made a huge batch of soup, why not share with some friends? I love the idea of a soup swap and propose that we do our own VIRTUAL soup swap!! If you have a favorite soup recipe, either post it in the comments or leave me a link to it and I will gather them all up into a post later on and will give you a link while I’m at it.

I have gathered up some of my favorite soup recipes and links – for my future reference and yours.

We’ll start with my all time favorite soup – my own Vegetable Soup:

• Saute finely chopped garlic, onions, celery and carrots in olive oil until wilty
• Add organic vegetable stock (Swanson), some Maggi beef stock, and a splash of Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt and pepper, plus I use Herbamare seasoning.
• Add can of diced tomatoes, frozen peas and corn, sliced carrots, celery and onion
• I may chop up some cabbage and add that later.
• Bring to a boil and simmer.

You can add just about anything but this soup is just so good!!

Here are some others on my list to make this winter:

• Curried Butternut Squash Soup
• Chunky Vegetable and Lentil Soup
• Tortilla Soup
• Emeril’s Potato Leek Soup
• Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup
• Mexican Tomato-Bean Soup with Corn Bread Dumplings (gluten free)
• Don’t forget Classic Chicken Noodle Soup
• Real Simple has gathered a list of 14 fabulous 5-Star Soup Recipes
• StartCooking.com features some very yummy soups and has videos of how to make many of them
• BHG has a cool slide show featuring 12 Slow Cooker soup recipes
• How about this huge list of soup recipes featuring your favorite brand name ingredients