In article >,
Dave Smith > wrote:
>Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Since much of the US is in a deep freeze, no way am I the only one
>> who made soup.
>>
>> Me: Beef barley served with a slice of marble rye.
>>
>> I feel better now. nancy
>
>I am going to have to work on making soups. I have never had much luck
>with them in the past. I am feeling a little inspired today. Our
>temperatures dropped drastically over the last few days so it is
>definitely soup season, but what really made me think was the soup
>sample I had this afternoon. I was in the liquor store and one of the
>local restaurants was doing a presentation and handing out samples of
>their roasted vegetable cream soup. It was incredible. They were also
>handing out samples of their honey chicken salad sandwiches on
>boccacio (sp?> bread.

Foccacia.

I have three soup cookbooks but will say that I have had excellent results
with the recipes from Williams-Sonoma Soup (slightly tweaked). The
minestrone I made today is a variant on one of the recipes.

If you google my id I did post the lentil soup (curried - very good) at
some point.

Charlotte