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Rainy Day Soup
- Total Time: 70 minutes
- Yield: 2 servings 1x
Description
A comforting soup for rainy days
Ingredients
- olive oil
- 1/2 large Vidalia onion, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 sweet potato, cut into small cubes (I don’t peel mine, but feel free to do so if you wish)
- 2 cups cauliflower florets, cut into small pieces
- 6 cups vegetable stock/broth
- 1 (15.5 oz) can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 4 stems of kale, deveined and torn into small pieces
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 sea salt
- dash cinnamon (optional–I love cinnamon and the subtle sweetness it adds to savory dishes)
Instructions
- In a large soup pot, heat a few swirls of olive oil over medium heat (about 2 tablespoons? I didn’t measure). Add your onion and garlic and cook until the onion is soft and translucent, about 8 minutes. Add the sweet potato and stir so it is coated with some of the oil. Allow to cook about 5 minutes. Add the cauliflower, stock, parsley, thyme, and salt and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer about 25-30 minutes. Add the black beans and kale and cook another 15-20 minutes, until the vegetables are tender. Stir in the dash of cinnamon and serve.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Category: Soup
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 serving
- Calories: 210
- Sugar: 9.5g
- Sodium: 707mg
- Fat: 7.5g
- Carbohydrates: 32.5g
- Protein: 5.5g
A great thing about making soup is that much of the cooking time is hands off. I am able to throw in some veggies, go and play with Meghan for a bit, then go back to the next step. I already had my cauliflower cut up, so that helped cut down the prep time as well.
Last time I offered Meghan soup it didn’t go over that well so I wasn’t convinced she would like this for dinner. That didn’t mean I wasn’t going to try. There is rarely a meal that I make that I don’t at least offer to Meghan. I never just assume she won’t like it. For this one, I took out the bits of kale (too hard to chew boiled greens), and made sure all the sweet potato and cauliflower pieces in her bowl were cut small enough.
Whenever I offer Meghan something new, I always make sure to serve her plenty of other things I know she likes. The rest of her meal looked like this:
Plain black beans, cheddar cheese, spinach-cheese bites, and some oat nut bread with butter. Well, she didn’t love the soup. The first strike against it was that she saw me blowing on mine before I took a bite so she assumed that hers was hot as well. (It wasn’t; I put hers in the freezer before giving it to her to cool it down) Anything that is even a tiny bit too hot she will. not. touch. I have made that mistake many times and learned the hard way. Do not give this girl too hot of food. So even the thought of the soup being hot deterred her. She finally did try a tiny taste, but made an awful face and that was that. I guess she didn’t like the taste. Oh, well. I loved it. She will like it some day, of that I am confident. She ate most of what you see on the plate above as well as two giant bowls of frozen wild blueberries for dessert.
I had my soup with a whole wheat English muffin and butter.
Today it is back to sunny and 90 degree weather, but I when I had my soup for lunch I imagined a crisp autumn day. 🙂
I love your blog! I was wondering if you have recommendations for a healthy, natural bread. I do try to make homemade wheat bread when I can, but it doesn’t always happen with having a busy toddler in the house 🙂 We mostly eat oat nut bread, but I’m not completely satisfied with the ingredients. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
I’m in the same boat as you. I try to make homemade bread, but I haven’t been able to get into a regular routine of it. I go between buying Brownberry 12 grain bread (like you, not completely satisfied with the ingredients), homemade bread from our local grocery store (which has excellent ingredients, but is very expensive), and Ezekiel bread, which I mostly like the ingredients, but don’t love the bread that much. Ugh! My next idea is to get a bread maker and see if that helps simplify the process of homemade bread and make me able to fit it in more regularly. I need to do that!
That soup looks great! And so healthy! I love how you can throw so many different things into a pot of soup and it’s always so forgiving. Too bad it’s 90 degrees here today, but I’m going to save this recipe for a rainy, cold, day!
That soup looks great! And so healthy! I love how you can throw so many different things into a pot of soup and it’s always so forgiving. Too bad it’s 90 degrees here today, but I’m going to save this recipe for a rainy, cold, day!