day of soup

Friday night at services one of the people who coordinates the congregation's food program (for congregants) told me that they'll be delivering food to our rabbi's family soon. (He just got out of the hospital a few days ago.) He mentioned this to me specifically because I am one of the few active congregants (and contributors to this program) who keeps kosher, and so does the rabbi. So I said that even absent the kashrut reasoning I would be delighted to cook some food for them, and asked if there are specific types of food that are needed. I'm told that they specifically want soups, so I spent part of the afternoon trying to meet that need.

I made the following two soups. (Apologetic note to celebrin: both contain tomatoes, but at least in the latter they could easily be omitted. For the former, you could omit them if you add more water/stock, I would think.)

( pumpkin soup )

( vegetable soup )

Both were tasty and have now been packed up for delivery. The pumpkin soup made about 2.5 quarts and the vegetable soup was about 2 quarts.

For dinner we then joined friends at a Japanese restaurant, where everyone else got sukiyaki. :-) It smelled very good. I'd like to figure out how to make it someday.

On a different note, while I didn't make it today I want to mention the nominally-African peanut stew I've made in the past, because someone on my friends list was asking about stews recently.

I don't make soup very often, so I'd welcome links to other good recipes.