Feeling Souper

Please don't judge me for that pun. Sometimes I just cannot help myself.

I realize this is my second blog post of the day about food. Could this become a food blog? Stay tuned!

Anyway. I'm sitting here slurping up the delicious soup I made myself for lunch and thought: it is so awesome that soup is so delicious, versatile, and easy to make. I'm a really deep, exciting person you'll notice.

Snark aside, let's think about this. Soup is amazing. You can essentially put anything you want in it, you can jazz it up with different spices and flavors, you can make it hearty or light, you can even (though I must say, I don't) make it hot or cold. All good. It took me years to hop on the soup train and damned if I'm ever getting off.

Here is what I made today:

2-4 cloves of garlic (I am obsessed with garlic and tend to "overdo" it according to some. I used 4)
1 can Annie's Lentil soup
2.5 cups of vegetable broth
2 cups lima beans
1 sweet potato
1 bay leaf
Olive oil
Tumeric, pepper, thyme and sage to taste

Instructions:

1) Mince the garlic and sautee with olive oil in a medium saucepan until fragrant (sometimes I like mine a teensy bit burnt, is that weird?)
2) Skin and cube the sweet potato, add to the pot
3) Add all other ingredients, bring to a boil
4) Lower heat and simmer for at least 20 minutes
5) Enjoy the delicious awesome soup you just made!

So easy. So healthy. So awesome.