Back when I was a restaurant chef, I had to make 20 gallons each of three kinds of soup every day. Two of the soups were standard fixtures on the menu, but one was a “soup of the day” which was something different every day. I was thinking about those days of making massive quantities of soup yesterday when I made this bean soup in my slow cooker. This five-quart batch of soup will be our “soup of the week!”
This was a toss a little bit of everything in the pot “zillion bean” soup, with tomatoes, brown rice, and spinach added near the end of cooking time. For added richness, I also stirred in about a cup of leftover marinara sauce. What a great flavor punch it adds to the soup! With all that goodness in one pot, my lunch menu is taken care of for several days.
Now on to the giveaway winner….
First I’d like to thank everyone who entered the giveaway to win a copy of The Blooming Platter Cookbook by Betsy DiJulio. It’s a very creative book with lots of great ideas for using fresh produce throughout the seasons, so if you don’t have it, you should check it out.
It seems like a good number of the entries listed apples or pumpkins as their favorite fall ingredient, including our Giveaway Winner: Lucky #13 (chosen via Random.org random number generator): Kelly C. who picked both pumpkin AND apples as her favorite ingredients! Congratulations, Kelly. Please e-mail me with your mailing address and I’ll get a copy of The Blooming Platter Cookbook in the mail to you.
Everyone else: stay tuned…there are more giveaways on the horizon!
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This soup looks great. Was the recipe suppose to be attached? I didn’t get it.
thanks! love your cookbooks too!
Ooops! I didn’t get a recipe attachment either.
I posted it in the post which follows this one!
Yep, I am kind of wishing that was in my crockpot for dinner!
No recipe here either.
Check the following post!
no recipe attached????
It’s in the following post!