Soup Season is ON...
/And we are here for it! If you have stopped to talk with Matt and I at one of our farmer’s markets than you know Matt and I love to talk about our weekend recipe making plans with our customers. However, after a holiday season of delicious appetizers, roasted meats and delectable sides and desserts, we had to rein it in and exercise some self control and switch from holiday season to…..
SOUP SEASON
Believe me, it was a wee bit of a hard transition on 2 January from our hearty meals to well, soup. However, with flavorful soups like the ones I am going to share with you are so comforting and dare I say, filling that we are thoroughly enjoying soup season and so are our waist lines! ;)
Inspired from a New York Times recipe, I love topping our homemade soups with this easy, refreshing, and game changing soup topper of parsley and celery leaves, lemon zest, grated garlic and a sprinkle of our sea salt.
SOUP TOPPER
Just finely chop together:
½cup parsley leaves, 1 teaspoon fresh lemon zest and up to ½ cup celery leaves. Transfer to a small bowl, grate a garlic clove into the bowl, season with our sea salt and stir to combine.
You can find NYT’s Ali Slagle’s Chicken and Rice Soup With Celery, Parsley and Lemon recipe here. I added chopped carrots and an onion to this recipe and instead of jasmine rice, I used wild rice. It was SO GOOD and it even received rave reviews from our son who was not feeling well. Matthew even embellished and said, “It tastes like comfort in a bowl.”
Now, I know zucchini is not in season….but the sun was out one cold Sunday afternoon and my friend, Maria invited me over for this creamy zucchini soup and the most loveliest salad…(IMO, salad tastes so much more delicious when not prepared by me). I wish I took a picture of my sunny January lunch with my friend, but I did return home to recreate this soup for Matt.
SILKY ZUCCHINI SOUP
I also used the parsley and celery leaf topper from the Chicken and Rice Soup and you know what, I think I just created my own spin of this Silky Zucchini Soup recipe found on the Food and Wine website.
This refreshing and perfectly SEAsoned with our flaky sea salt soup topper is a great addition to your favorite chicken soup, this zucchini soup to my favorite matzo ball soup. Let me know if you give this soup topper a try and share with me your favorite cold winter month soups.
HAPPY SOUP AND HIBERNATING SEASON! ;)