The Soup Guy

Last Thanksgiving, when my Dad came, he made lots of different soups. That's pretty traditional in a Polish household (though I didn't really know that until I went to Poland). In my Dad's family, that's the way it always was, so he had many years to practice throwing things into a broth and making a delicious soup out of it all. Well, about the third bowl into the soup fest last year and Brian decided that soup is easy to make, tastes great and should become his newest hobby. ha, ha

He tried a few times after my Dad left and everything was a little bland, or too spicy, or not enough something, and then the soup fever died down a little. Knowing that "winter" was coming and the FEVER would probably hit again soon, one day I happened upon a soup recipe book while standing at the Walgreen's checkout line perusing the checkstand offerings. The book was $4.00 so I thought, why not?

That book is inspiration and contains so many different yummola soups! The first one Brian made was the chicken and rice soup which uses rotisserie chicken (who can argue with that?) and delicious spices. This soup made a believer out of me, even though Brian thought it was "just okay."

Look at this soup!!!! Just okay?????????? No way. It was so good, I didn't even add SALT and I always add salt. I think the best spice in it is tarragon. Who would have thought that tarragon was the spice of the gods? There's also petite peas (petit pois) which I didn't know would be such a great addition to soup!

If any of you have any great soup recipes, send them to us and let us critique them. ha, ha We're enjoying the cold so much more now.