Soup, Its Whats for Lunch

Squash Bisque w/Homemade Bread Cubes

The hard part about trying to eat only fresh food is that all important meal in the middle of the day: lunch. Children are usually away from home along with the parents. Sandwiches are usually the mainstay, and they are not a bad choice if you use homemade bread and unprocessed meat. Cooking chicken or turkey breast, slicing them thin and keeping this on hand for those lunches is a start to getting ahead of the game. Another way is to provide a hearty soup, full of vegetables and stick to your ribs potatoes. Many people eat lots of salads for their vegetables and the lunch menu, and organic raw vegetables are full of live enzymes our digestion system needs, but late studies show that many people struggle to digest vegetables properly. Slightly cooking vegetables in soups makes them much more available and easily digestible. Soups are very diverse, there is one out there for every taste.

Another wonderful thing about soups? The broth used in many of them. Make it fresh using old chicken bones and carcasses and beef bones. I ask the butcher for old beef bones and make nutritious beef broth and will freeze it in quart canning jars. I will save several roasted chicken carcasses in the freezer and make a large batch of chicken broth as well. This too is frozen for later use. Nothing can replace the nutrition in these broths. 

So here is a favorite soup recipe in our house:

Squash Bisque

6 yellow squash, sliced
1 large onion, sliced
1 stick of butter
3 large yellow potatoes
1 cup of chicken broth
1 cup of milk (coconut milk or soy works well also)
1 1/4 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning
 
In a large deep skillet melt the butter and cook onions and squash until soft. Meanwhile, boil the potatoes until soft. Place the cooked vegetables and potatoes along with the other ingredients into and an 8 quart pot, and using a submersion blender, blend until creamy. Gently reheat until desired temperature is reached. You can top with bacon bits, homemade bread cubes, or sour cream.

Do you love that bowl in the picture? Sam's had these large cute bowls full of cookie mix and a small whisk--three kits for $4! I just wanted a these large bowls to fill with soup.