Soup season

We're all about the soup around here.

A while back, we bought this soup-tastic (!) cookbook, 

after having thumbed through a copy at a friend's house.

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What's not to love about this cookbook?

Not only does it feature a monk cooking up a storm,

it has simple, delicious recipes,

& cute quotes about soup inside, 

like this French proverb:

Eat soup first and eat it last, 

and live till a hundred years be past.

My favourite thing about this cookbook, however,

is the fact it is organized according to months.

It's divided into twelve chapters

& each month features ten soups or so, with seasonally-appropriate veggies.

This thrills me to no end.  (Why, yes, I am a Virgo... why do you ask?)

FQ likes to tease me by threatening to make an "April" soup when it's only January.

or a "December" recipe in mid-March.  He's crazy like that.

Now that it's getting darker a bit earlier & there's a definite chill to the evenings,

it seemed like the time was right to get our soup on.

Plus I start my new job on Monday

& having soup in the freezer to heat up for a quick dinner

(avec une baguette et un peu de fromage, bien sûr)

is always a good plan.

So last night FQ made two huge pots of soupe,

potato - leek - carrot

&

cream of celery.

Yum.

All that chopping & cooking took place while I was in the other room

teaching my Skype student & then talking to my parents.

So I guess going back to work isn't so bad

when you've got dinner all sorted out in advance

& a sweet soup-making husband to come home to.