Root Veg Soup!!!

I love to make enough food to last a few days.  Large hearty soups seem to feed me the longest.  I'm always hungry and when I have to go to school all day and if I don't take time to pack a lunch or two, well, it gets rather expensive.  Plus, the food options at school are kinda slim.  It's either Sprouts or Pendulum.  Sprouts, a 100% volunteer run cafe and grocery store, makes soups from local produce and ingredients.  Soup is less than 4 bucks.  If you are late, you miss out on the wonderful hand made breads and if you come even later, you miss out on soup.  No soup for you!!! If late, I go to Pendulum, and get some bean salad of some sort and my favorite dish they serve- Hominy Salad!  Yum!!  Know what Hominy is?  even better, do you know what pazole is?  I had my first pazole at a restaurant in Portland I worked at.  It was the staff/family-style dinner of the evening. Yum!  And just recently I wrote a love poem to the creator of the most wonderful vegan pazole at Whole Foods.  I don't remember what was in it, I just remember it was the most amazing soup ever!  I truly did write  love poem the the chef.  :)  (the love poem wasn't directed at the chef.  It's the soup I have undying love for)


Here's what I cooked for the next few days and a midnight snack for tonight:

Sauteed onions, celery, carrot, cumin, coriander in olive oil.  Then added yams and sweet pots.  garlic and ginger... MMM

Then I added some water and french lentils.  Quinoa to boot!  Its going to be a very rounded soup.

Collard Greens!!! I cut off the stems and threw them in with the veggies.. Threw them in too!

Hearty root veg dreams for me.