All The Soups

 It never fails.  August rolls around and I start craving soup.  All the soups.  I started buying a head of cabbage every week, dreaming about cabbage soup.  But then I remember it's 100+ degrees out, and make coleslaw or cabbage stir fry and call it a week.  

It's now late September, and although most people are breaking out the sweaters and pumpkin spice about this time, I'm still flip-flopping my way over to the pool to swim laps in the evening when it's not so blisteringly hot.  

But last week? Last week's forecast was shaping up to be blissfully cool (lows in the high 60s!!) and rainy--really rainy.  Alright, so it was because a hurricane/tropical storm was rolling in, but I'll take that over one more week of summer any September.  

So, I bought another head of cabbage, and battened down the hatches and settled in for a pretend autumn.  Yes, I realize it's not real, and that autumn won't really arrive until December in Houston, but shhhhh....just let me pretend for this week.

I made a cabbage soup with sausage and barley and lentils--a whole vat of it that my family would not dream of eating, but was sufficient for one person for breakfast and lunch all week long.  

I also made some ramen eggs, and miso pork, and got out the giant ramen bowls for an evening of steaming hot noodles and pork bone broth, which my kids will eat.

I don't understand why everyone in my family doesn't adore soup like I adore soup.  What's not to love? Brothy, creamy, spicy, chunky, vegetably, hot, cold, bring it on.  All the soups....(ok, maybe I draw the line at some soups with extra special animal parts, but I'm down for the vast majority of soups).

So if you like soup to the point of turning down the a/c in the heat of summer just so you can put on a sweater and eat soup, come on over. We will get along just fine.