The soup initiative, revisited

When I was in grad school, I lined one of my office bookshelves with cans of pop-top, chunky winter soup (bought on sale, of course). The sodium-filled cans of hearty goodness were my ward against hunger, my first line and fallback, and reason for Not Eating Lunch Out Every Damn Day (you can spend a graduate stipend soooo fast if you're not careful!). It worked out pretty well, saving me some $, but also raising my blood pressure...

The inescapable conclusion, regardless, was that soup is a wonderful winter food. Sure, it's great other times of the year, but during the winter, it's warm and soothing and filling and makes the house smell nice. So here's the plan: two soups, every weekend, to supplement the food prep for the rest of the week. The new Lodge has actually been drafted for this effort. This is good, because, left to my own devices, I'd just look at the thing, not use it. It's already made beef-vegetable soup and a batch of marinara! Yeah!

So the soup initiative has been...reinitialized...and thus far we've had:

Black bean soup
Cod chowder
Beef-vegetable soup
Lentil soup x 3
Butternut squash soup

(Lentil soup so often because it's the vegetable disposal and also, therefore, the Soup Of Health! Plus, verrrry tasty.)

Updates every week (excepting the holidays, most likely), I hope!