VeggiesandValentino

Hello all! Sorry for the long absence this last week but I have been crazy busy/sick! I had two wedding showers last weekend and they were both so much fun! I’m going to miss this getting gifts all the time thing after I get married! I even got some great cookbooks which I will share soon!  On Monday night I got some sort of stomach virus and while I was pretty much recovered within 24 hours the doctors still ordered a easy to digest liquidy diet, which was perfect for this weeks CEiMB pick! Tuscan Vegetable Soup (click for recipe) hosted by wonderful Lobster and Fishsticks blog. This soup was so yummy! The only thing I changed was to add brown rice and a little aged balsamic vinegar. The brown rice added a nice texture to the soup and made it a complete protein with the beans in the soup too! I also had to sub the canellini beans, which I do love, for Borlotti beans (also known as cranberry beans) because its what I had on hand at the time. I would definitely make this soup again even if this dinner isn’t winning any photography awards!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

I also made another really yummy soup this weekend, Pumpkin soup! It was sooooo good! I cant wait to try more pumpkin and other winter squash recipes this fall and winter. Especially because I won my first blog giveaway and it was a wonderful vegetarian soup cookbook!!! It came from Tami from the wonderful blog Vegan Appetite. This cookbook is amazing and has 100 vegetarian soup recipes plus breads to serve with them, YUM!

How fun! I’ll be making LOTS of recipes out of this cookbook!

I’ll post the pictures and recipe to my Pumpkin Apple Cider soup next post for now I’m off! Hope everyone had a great day, just one more until its the weekend again!!