It’s cold out side and snowy. . brrrrr.  Looks like the perfect time for some SOUP!!  

You remeber those roasted vegatables we made last month??  Delicous, steamy, spicey vegtables.  ..  . ..   yummmm!     Uh, ya,, Well I hope you made a double batch.  If not then quickly whip up a batch or two (or three depending on how strong your will power is) and lets get souping. 

For this recipe you’ll need 1 recipe of Roast Winter Vegatbles, salt. pepper. olive oil, a loaf of crusty french bread, and soup stock.

This recipe calls for 6-8 cups chicken stock, which you can either buy, or if like me you happen to have 200 bags of frozen stock in the freezer you can use those.     To speed up the whole thawing process I threw the frozen stock into a pot and placed it on the stove.

Now, this recipe is crazy simple, but it does require a blender of some sort. It doesn’t need to be a blender per say, food processors work fine, or those fun hand held masher thingys.  Anything that has blades

Ohhh shiny sharp blades!!

Begin by scooping up the roasted vegtables and placing 1/4 of them in the blender.  If your blender is bigger and more powerfull then mine (which wouldn’t be very hard) then you ahead and fill that puppy up!

 

This is pretty much all mine can take,   sad little blender.

Add 1/2 cup- 3/4 cup of chicken stock to the vegtables, this will ensure that there is enough water content in the blender for it to properly puree.  I’m not sure if you would need to add the stock if you were using a food processor.  Maybe you would, maybe you wouldn’t.  I’ve never used a processor so I just don’t know.  Sorry.

Turn the blender on, and watch the magic unfold.

Here’s a lovely photo of the vegtables pureeing taken from the top of the blender.  As I gaze at this picture part of me is thinking “um yummmyyy” while another part begins to see simalarities between the color’s and , , other less wholesome and non-food related things. . . cringe!   But since I’ve actually tasted this soup I’m gonna stick with my postive self . … . . yummy !!    

Moving on.

Place the puree in a bowl.

Remeber that soup stock we were thawing??  Well go grab it from off the stove, its time of usefullness has arrived.

Place all the puree in a large pot, put it in the stove and turn the heat up.  Now slowly begin adding the broth.   There’s alot of wiggle room here, if you like your soups very runny add LOTS of broth.  However, if you prefer a more thick soup simply add less!  

I choose less!!  Because I like soup you have to eat with a knife and fork.  Okay, well not really,  but I do prefer it on the thicker side.

Once you’ve reached the appropriate consistancy, grab your spices and start seasoning.  Throw in some pepper.

A dash or two of salt!

Stir all up and bring the soup to a slow boil, just to heat it up.

While the soups heating, take your loaf of bread and begin cutting it into 1inch cubes.  On a side note: this was a whole loaf of bread just this morning.  However, my lovely and ever so thoughtfull twin decided she’d like some toast for breakfast.  Slice Slice!   Then I stumbled into the kitchen, still half asleep and in a state of semi-conciousness, and decide I to wanted toast for breakfast.  Slice Slice.   Well before I knew it my lovely loaf of cruton making bread was now a stub.  Which is fine, I respect all shapes and sizes of bread here! 

Place the bread cubes on a baking sheet.    (How pathetic does this picture look! Poor stubby bread cudes

Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the pan.  Unless of course you have a rather sad amount of cubes then use less. . . . . . . way less.

Sprinkle on some salt.   I love sprinkling salt!!   Sprinkled salt completes me!!  (Kinda)

Shake on some pepper.

Toss the bread cubes around, until nicely coated.  Then pop them into a 350 degree oven for 5 minutes, then toss them around again and throw them back in the oven for another 5-10 minutes.

They should be nice and golden brown when done. 

Now, place some soup in a colorful and fun bowl!!  

Then change youR mind and use the boring white dishes.  (They matched my table decor better.).    Place some delicous crutons on top (use more then three, unless you used stubby bread, then three is all you really can do).   Drizzle a small amount of olive oil over the crutons.  Serve, eat, smile !!  

Ummmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!   This is gggood soup.  Try it!   That’s an order!