As I type this post, it’s raining cats and dogs outside. It’s soup weather for sure. I’ve made this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (Spur of the moment vegetable soup, p 74) three times in the past 3 week. It’s just that good. Carrots, onions, garlic, celery, potato and ginger combined with some rosemary and thyme in chicken broth makes for a very tasty soup. Best of all, you get to feel like you are making a meal out of nothing. Even better, I’d say I generally have all of those ingredients in the house during the winter so it’s something I can make anytime I need a quick, hearty, healthy soup.
Plus, when you find gorgeous carrots like this in your organic delivery box, you really want them to be the star of the dish, right?
I opted to puree the soup because, well, basically, I think it’s a lot prettier than a bowl of broth with cut up veggies. Also, this way, it doesn’t matter if your veggies are prettily cut up right? They’re going to be blitzed anyway! For a soup full of simple ingredients, it certainly packs a lot flavour – I think it’s the ginger (I added a little more of this than the recipe called for) – and if even Mr Neil says “yum” about 1. a soup and 2. a VEGETABLE soup, well you know if must be great!
So many possibilities for changing up the vegetables, herbs and spices in this but this version will go into our winter soup rotation for sure.
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Beautiful carrots, beautiful soup 🙂
It is pouring here too.My poor lawn is never going to get cleaned if we don’t have a dry day soon…
Have a great weekend.
Soup is the perfect remedy!
I really adored the seasoning of this soup too and I plan on making through out the winter. Yours looks fantastic.
It’s a keeper for the winter!
Yes! I have all these ingredients in the kitchen right now, and my ginger is a baby variety from the farmer’s market, tender and juicy. What a delicious way to clean out the fridge and whip up lunch in one fell swoop!
A great way to use up veggies and make a healthy meal!
Lovely and delicious soup:) I loved the flavor the ginger gave the soup.
So comforting!
Ooh, the soup looks good, but the carrots really steal the show. Just gorgeous.
And you nailed the reason I like pureed soups, because then I can be lazy with my chopping:-)
It’s the best, an immersion blender!
Beautiful pictures. I love that you’ve made this multiple times already. This is definitely a soup I’d like to have waiting for me in the fridge as often as possible.
Yes it’s a new fave!
The nice thing about this soup is that most of these veggies are staples in the fridge. Yours
look nice, very smooth, and I think when it is pureed it looks sort of elegant. I will be
making this again all winter.
Love that these are staples – we can make this often!
Love your photography! Your soup is beautiful. I’ve been thinking for a long time now to join this cooking group (Tuesdays with Dorie). It sounds fun. Maybe, soon ….
We’d love to have you join!
Not Tuesday, Fridays with Dorie. 🙂 LOL. My brain is fried today.
Another gorgeous blended version! I will try it that way next 🙂
Blended is best!
I love your multi-colored carrots. It’s almost a shame to puree them and blend that rainbow of colors. I made a winter squash version, but with multiple months of soup weather ahead, I’ll try with the carrots and ginger next week. Yours looks delicious!
Ginger is the best seasoning in this!
The colour of your soup is beautiful!
Thank you!
Those carrots are gorgeous… almost too pretty to blend together in a soup! I can’t wait to make this one later today for lunch.
But they do make a pretty coloured soup, right?
Those carrots are beautiful! Can’t wait to try this soup! I have some carrots and parsnips in my fridge right now so may try a half/half variation.
That would work too!
beautiful carrots and soup! I’m looking forward to making this soup many times and was lucky enough to get a winter CSA share this year.
Oh how fun!
Those carrots win a prize, some kind of prize. Their colors, when blitzed, made for a richly-colored puree. It looks gorgeous. Since I added a grain, I didn’t flavor my soup with Ginger and I really think I missed out. You all are raving about the seasoning. So, since I also will be making some form of this soup all Winter, I will just try, try, again.
The seasoning is stellar!
Love winter soups and esp the thought of swapping and changing all the diff vegies!
So versatile!
wow!! i’m so jealous of the great veg you got from your CSA!!! the mood of your photos this week is so cool and blue 🙂 love!
Thanks Alice! And yes, from the organic box we sometimes get gems for sure!
Those carrots are gorgeous and the soup mmm I could really use a bowl now, it’s cold and foggy here!!!
This is perfect for the chilly fall weather!
Valuable tips for the vegetable soup at the winter time