A Recipe Round-up: Soup!

Vicki: Is there anyone who doesn’t love soup. Whether hot and steaming on those cold winter nights or icy cold for a summer buffet, soup is everyone’s go to. It can be thick and creamy and chock full of vegetables, or as clear as water but still flavourful. You can use about any vegetables you have on hand, and it’s a great way to use up those carrots and celery that are about to go off. You can throw in meat or beans, even pasta.

Over the years we at Mystery Lovers Kitchen have made a lot of soup. Here’s a variety of them, chosen for no reason at all. 

First off, my eternal favourite tomato and red pepper soup. I make a lot of this in the fall when tomatoes are overflowing the markets and it freezes very well.

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: Tomato and Red Pepper Soup From Vicki Delany

One St. Patrick’s Day, Maddie Day gave us a recipe for a hearty Beef, Beer, and Barley soup

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: Beef, Beer, and Barley Soup #StPatricksDay @MaddieDayAuthor #giveaway

Here’s Peg Cochran’s Broccoli Cheese Soup

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: Copycat Panera Broccoli Cheese Soup

Soup can be a full meal, particularly if served with a lovely crusty loaf, as shown in this chowder from Lucy Burdette:

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: Chipotle Pepper, Corn, and Chicken Chowder #recipe @lucyburdette

Perfect for hot summer lunches, a Watermelon Gazpacho from Korina Moss

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: WATERMELON GAZPACHO by @KORINAMOSSAUTHOR

Soups can be the tried and true stand-by (Chicken Noodle, French Onion) or something dramatic and different such as this Hawaiian Noodle Soup recipe from Leslie Karst, Japanese inspired containing salmon

Mystery Lovers' Kitchen: Saimin, aka Hawaiian Noodle Soup #recipe by @Leslie Karst

Soup – always a feast.

Readers: Do you have any great soup recipes you’d like to share with us, or favourite ingredients?