Lemon Chicken and Rice Soup

I love this soup.  Love it.  And it's so easy.

1 cup rice
juice of one lemon and water to equal 2 cups.  (For me it was 1 3/4 cup water and 1/4 cup lemon juice)
zest of one lemon
Make rice as you usually would.  I used my rice cooker.

Saute 1 small onion in 2 TBSP olive oil
Add 3 carrots diced
2 celery stalks, diced
6 cups chicken stock (home made is always best.  I cheat and use bullion cubes)
2 cups diced cooked chicken (I used half a roasted chicken from the store)
Bring to a boil, then let simmer until vegetables are soft

Add in Lemon rice and simmer until ready to serve.

Delicious

Tomato Orzo Soup

This is an easy go to recipe for my family.

Tomato Orzo Soup
2 medium carrots chopped
1 medium onion diced
2 stalks Celery chopped
2 TBSP olive oil
1 TBSP italian seasoning

Saute until veggies are getting soft



Add
2 cups chicken broth (I use an msg free bullion cube)
2 cups water
1 small can tomato paste

Bring to a boil

Add
1/2 cup orzo noodles


Simmer until orzo is cooked. ~ 20 minutes.

Serve with crusty bread.

Carrot Soup

I had a lot of garden carrots to use this year.



1 medium onion diced
3 large carrots cut into slices
1 TBSP parsley
1 TBSP basil

sauté in 1 TBSP olive oil

Add:
2 cups chicken broth

Boil for about 12 minutes. Purée in batches. Set aside.

In same pan

Melt 2 TBSP butter. Add 2 TBSP flour. Mix well.
Add
1 cup milk.
Whisk together until starting to thicken.

Add Carrot purée.

Mix together.

salt and pepper to taste.

Beef Barley Soup

Since there is only the two of us, when I make a roast, I must find things to do with the leftovers. And you can only eat so many Roast Beef Sandwiches.

So here is a soup recipe.

Put leftover roast into a crock pot.
Add:
2 beef bullion cubes (or use beef stock)
2 large carrots
2 large stalks of celery
1 medium onion chopped
2-3 cloves of garlic
1 TBSP Italian Seasoning
2 bay leaves
1 cup pearl barley.
Salt & Pepper
enough water to cover and then some. I think I used about 8 cups today. You may have to play with the amount of bullion cubes. If you are using beef stock, just use enough stock to make it like soup and don't add any bullion.

Cook on low heat for about 4 hours.

We ate this with buttery bread machine rolls.

Sweet Potato Soup

We LOVE Sweet Potatoes at our house. I make sweet potato casserole, fries, mashed, baked. Since I don't like regular potatoes, sweet potatoes replace them in my diet.
Well I recently found a wonderful recipe for soup. I had it today and it was absolutely delicious!!

Sweet Potato Soup adapted from recipezarr.com



3-4 Tbsp butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 medium onion chopped
~1 tsp fresh ginger
1/2 tsp curry powder
1 large sweet potato (not gigantic, if it's really big then just use half)
1 cup chicken stock

Sauté the garlic, onion ginger and curry powder in the butter. Add Sweet Potato and chicken stock. Cook on low until sweet potato is tender. Purée in blender or food processor. Put back into pot.

Over low heat add:
about 3 cups of milk.

Cook until warm.

Ladle into bowl and just before serving, add cream and fresh cilantro.