Seasonal Sundays (Week 49) Supper Soups

A collection of soup recipes suitable for suppers, some weeknight fare, others saved for special occasions, some spartan, some meaty, something for everyone. I hope you love these recipes as much as I do ...

~ Skip Straight to the Good Stuff ~

Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ... and "Almost" December

Isn't the world just a tiny bit better place when a pot of soup simmers on the stove or in the oven? Even leftover soup in the fridge awaiting a quick reheat?

"My husband doesn't like soup" is the second dumbest thing I've ever heard, preceded only by "My husband won't eat leftovers."

Whaaaattttt? These are grownups? And if they're doing all the cooking, well, then soup and leftovers are their loss but at least they're not imposing altogether silly notions on the house servant spouse as if their mothers were waiting in the wings, fulfilling every whim.

Sorry. I digress. But really, what's there to not like about soup? There's just so many good reasons to make soup! It's hearty. It's filling. It's portable. It's usually affordable. It's usually nutritious. It's endlessly variable. It can be made ahead of time.

So here, I've collected just seven of my favorite soup recipes, from meaty to spartan, from everyday to special occasion, each one selected to release your Inner Soup Chef, good to the very last drop.

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SEASONAL INSPIRATION: Outstanding Supper Soups

• THE RECIPE Broccoli Potato Cheddar Soup
• ANOTHER TAKE Quick Cauliflower Soup or Quick Broccoli Soup Healthful veggie soups on the table in minutes.

• THE RECIPE At Last! Black Bean Soup My signature recipe for thirty years.
• ANOTHER TAKE Homemade Lentil Soup Comfort food for a crowd.

• THE RECIPE Weight Watchers Spinach & Tortellini Soup
• ANOTHER TAKE Lasagna Soup with Fresh Spinach

• THE RECIPE Chicken or Turkey & Wild Rice Soup A hearty mix of leftover chicken or turkey, wild rice and butternut squash.
• ANOTHER TAKE Creamy Wild Rice Soup The Minnesota classic, creamed with vegetables not cream.

• THE RECIPE White Chicken Chili An old favorite, a little lighter.
• ANOTHER TAKE My Chicken Noodle Soup The way I make it, meaty and noodle-y with just a few noodles.

• THE RECIPE Lazy Man's Ciopinno A simple but celebration-worthy stew.
• ANOTHER TAKE Oyster Stew Fresh oysters in a milky broth.

• THE RECIPE Quick 'n' Easy Shrimp Bisque Part shrimp chowder, part traditional bisque.
• ANOTHER TAKE Finnish Salmon Soup (Lohikeitto) Finland's famous fish and potato chowder.

What's New?!

Wondering about a recipe from the last while? Check Recent Recipes from Kitchen Parade and Recent Vegetable Recipes from A Veggie Venture.

• THE RECIPE Easy-Easy Triscuit with Cheddar & Basil A quick last-minute appetizer, such a surprise!
• ANOTHER TAKE Three Favorite Sandwich & Cracker Spreads Cranberry Orange Spread + Almond Cilantro Spread + Sun-Dried Tomato Spread

Compliments!

Dang spammers. I've had to turn comments off again, thanks to spambots leaving hundreds of spam comments a day, what a scourge.

But I miss hearing from y'all!

So if you've made a recipe from Kitchen Parade or A Veggie Venture, feel free to drop a quick email, my current address is in the FAQs. I especially love to hear about your adaptations.

• SO GOOD TO HEAR! "I found you many years ago and this has been my go-to soup recipe since then. I add Pace Picante sauce instead of tomato paste and I add broccoli. I love it! Thank you!" ~ An Anonymous But Much Appreciated Fellow WW Soup Lover :-)
• THE RECIPE Weight Watchers Zero Points Garden Vegetable Soup
• BUT WAIT, THERE's MORE All the WW Zero-Point Soups

A Quick Peek Into a Real-Life Kitchen

Just so you know, everything's not all pretty pictures around here, in the background is a pile of dirty dishes. And just like many (all?) of us, come five o'clock, I too draw a blank about what to make for supper, despite so many recipes I so dearly love. Here's a quick peek from the last week.

• THIS WEEK Grocery supplies were low, especially vegetables since we were on a day-to-day decision on when and even if to leave for Thanksgiving at my sister's a day's drive away. Pantry to the rescue! I decided to sauté poblano, the last carrot in the fridge, some raggy looking radicchio plus a handful of dried cranberries and almonds; then stir in the grains (this time, brown rice, farro and quinoa) and carry on in the oven. It did need an extra 1-1/2 cups of water but whoah, what a pretty dish, a real medley of textures and colors and flavors. I sliced up some leftover steak for my husband but cooked myself two eggs right in the Pilaf, right in the same pan, right in the still-hot oven, they took about 8 minutes. What a supper save!
• THE RECIPE Oven-Baked Whole-Grain Pilaf with Quinoa, Barley, Kamut & Other Grains A concept recipe for rices, grains, lentils and more.
• ANOTHER TAKE Oven-Baked Brown Rice So good, make it every week.

• THIS WEEK And so it begins, the annual ritual of tossing together a simple but still festive salad almost every night during late November and December. This year, I've taken to adding radicchio to the salad greens, it's not necessary but the added color is lovely.
• THE RECIPE Festive Holiday Salad My signature salad during the holidays, just ten minutes start to finish.
• ANOTHER TAKE Simple Arugula Salad So simple, so sumptuous

Just Updated!

• THE RECIPE Homemade Lentil Soup Comfort food for a crowd.
• ANOTHER TAKE Scandinavian Split-Pea Soup Traditional on Tuesdays, without fail.

• THE RECIPE Spanish Stew with Roasted Pepper (Chilindron) With a mysterious dark-red color.
• ANOTHER TAKE Picadillo (Cuban Ground Beef Skillet Supper) Homey comfort food from Cuba.

Something to Read

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PUERTO RICO DIASPORA This is a culture I know next to nothing about so found the contemporary history intriguing, the split between those who seek independence and those who seek U.S. statehood; the split between those who leave and those who stay; the split between those who follow traditional mores and those who, well, do not. I definitely recommend Olga Does Dreaming. It definitely has some laugh out loud moments. Would you believe, that "napkins" are one of them?!

ELIZABETH STROUT FANS Two years back, I sang the praises of author Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Olive, Again, then the introduction of a new character in My Name Is Lucy Barton and later Anything Is Possible (which I seem to have skipped) and Oh William!.

Olive makes a cameo appearance in Strout's latest book, Lucy by the Sea, the story of Lucy and her family from early 2020 to mid 2021, facing the pandemic, dealing with health and loss and marital and living and career changes in all their lives. This is an introspective book through the eyes of a healthy woman in her 70s who's contemplating her future. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would love to take a walk with her along the coast of Maine.

• THE FIRST BOOK Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
• THE SECOND BOOK Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout


• BOOK CLUB BOOK IDEAS My Reading Group's Book List since 1994!
• NO TIME TO READ? How I Read 4X More This Year Than Last What I gave up, how I read so much, what I read.

Don't Be a Stranger ...

I'd love to hear from you. Comment, send me a quick e-mail (my current address in the FAQs), dot-dash in Morse code, build a fire for smoke signals, launch a message in a bottle, send a Christmas letter, get the dog to yip, toss me a note wrapped in a rubberband, write a message in the sky, scratch a note in the sand, listen to a seashell, tuck a question into a plastic Easter egg, whatever.

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Kitchen Parade is written by second-generation food columnist Alanna Kellogg and features fresh, seasonal dishes for every-day healthful eating and occasional indulgences. Quick Suppers are Kitchen Parade favorites and feature recipes easy on the budget, the clock, the waistline and the dishwasher. Do you have a favorite recipe that other Kitchen Parade readers might like? Just send me a quick e-mail, you'll find my current address in the FAQs. How to print a Kitchen Parade recipe. Never miss a recipe! If you like this recipe, sign up for a free e-mail subscription. If you like Kitchen Parade, you're sure to like my food blog about vegetable recipes, too, A Veggie Venture. When you make my recipes, I'd love to know your results! Just leave a comment below or better still, on the specific recipe's page.

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