What To Do With Left Over Soup Recipe

Harmony Oaks, my former Bed & Breakfast in the Columbia, South Carolina countryside presented many opportunities to get creative in the kitchen.  I was fifty miles from the nearest health food store and ten miles from the Piggly Wiggly.  Its produce section was nothing less than dreadful.  While I had a frozen organic food service and grew as much of my own produce as I could in our circular organic garden, often times I just had to get creative and come up with simple ways to re-purpose leftovers.

Now living in the harried metropolis of Los Angeles, I have different considerations . . . time and traffic.  We Angeleno's plan everything we do according to those two factors.  Sometimes I can't just leave the house to go to the market.  It could take thirty minutes to go one mile during certain times of the day.  So, I look in the refrigerator and see what I can put together that's simple, delicious and healthy.

I made my Chicken Curried Sweet Potato soup (recipe is available on another post of this blog) the other day.  There was enough for about two servings.  I also had a bunch of fresh veggies that I had to eat up as soon as I could.  So, I used coconut oil to saute up some fresh snow peas and kale.  Then, I simply added a serving of the soup stirred and cooked it down for a few minutes.

It's best to flash saute the veggies so you don't over cook them when you add the soup and cook it down. You can also add more chicken or nuts or what ever you have on hand that just needs to be eaten.

This works best with creamy soups like butternut squash, pumpkin, potato, tomato, asparagus and the like.  If you use a broth based soup, you may want to thicken it a little with cornstarch or puree it before you dump it in with the veggies.

I ate this all on its own.  You could serve it over rice or quinoa or just add those grains into the mix.  There are so many possibilities.  Just get creative and come up with what ever works for you.

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