Hi. So uh...it's been awhile.
How are you? I've been incredibly busy with work and life and ironically COOKING.
Aren't soups awesome? I love soup. Or should I say, I love to eat soup. Soups are kind of the world's perfect food. I mean they are healthy, comforting, portable, cheap...blah blah. The interesting thing is that I NEVER make my own soup. I have always been more of a TJ's $1.99/can kind of girl. The catch is that TJ's only makes 3 types of vegetarian soups and after eating about 3 cans a week...let's just say I want to throw up when I look at a can of their vegan split pea.
So this is the beginning of an adventure with soups. I bought the above cookbook while shopping with a friend at my favorite little independent book store near my office: Alexander Book Company. She bought her other friend this cookbook as a birthday gift. The book was SO incredible I just had to order another copy for myself as the store only had one in stock. It is so hard to find vegetarian soup recipes! Everything always uses chicken stock and tend to be bland if you just sub veg broth.
I currently have a curried red lentil soup on the stove right now and it smells amazing! Can't wait to chow down...both tonight and tomorrow at work.
On another note, if this soup kick continues I might be able to justify buying one of Le Creuset's gorgeous new dutch ovens in Cassis...
LE SIGH. So beautiful, yet sooooooo expensive.
