Comfort in a Bowl

The Beginning of Almost Every Good Soup

• Olive oil
• An onion
• Something green
• A pot you like

We're already halfway there.

Start with the onion.

Let it take its time.

Add garlic if you have it. Carrots or celery if they're around. Herbs if something is growing outside.

This isn't the part to rush.

Five quiet minutes at the stove can change the whole pot.

White Beans, Greens & Parmesan

Beans, good broth, garlic, kale or spinach, Parmesan and lemon.

The kind of soup that looks like you planned dinner when really you opened two cans and found half a bunch of kale.

Finish with lemon.

Most tired soups aren't missing salt. They're missing something bright.

Tomato, Sausage & Whatever Needs Using

Italian sausage, tomatoes, onion, white beans or little pasta, whatever vegetables are currently negotiating their expiration date.

Let it bubble while you do something else.

Or nothing else.

Nothing else is also an option.

Potato, Leek & Herbs

Nothing complicated. Potatoes, leeks, broth, thyme and a little cream at the end.

Soft food for hard days.

Blend all of it, some of it, or none of it.

There are no soup police.

And Then There's Bread

Toast it.

Butter it.

Tear it directly over the pot if that's where the evening has taken you.

A bowl of soup with good bread is dinner.

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