White Bean Soup with
Served with baked sweet potatoes
It's back to just the two of us again.
I was already hungry when I got home, but we didn't have anything to cook with on hand. Then, when I went to Shaw's, they had no kale and had rearranged their produce section (again). I started getting pretty hangry, but eventually just grabbed some spinach and got cooking. It's sad though, because kale in soup is one of the best things ever.
The other day G said we should make a white bean soup (specifically). When I asked why white beans, he observed that we've made a few soups with white beans in it, and those have been good. True, but I don't know if the beans are to credit. This soup was a little funny, for example, maybe because of the lack of kale :( Shaw's doesn't carry Spanish chorizo, but it has Portuguese chorico, which is apparently quite similar. The one they have isn't very flavorful though, so it just doesn't add much to the soup at all. Then, some of the beans were supposed to get mashed, which thickened the soup a little but made it a less enjoyable texture, I think. There really wasn't that much seasoning in this soup, and I wasn't impressed. Which is weird, because a soup I really like is essentially the same except for a can of tomatoes and subbing spicy portuguese sausage for the chorico. I dunno-- is it really just the tomatoes? Or would this have been amazing if it weren't for the spinach? I would really appreciate it if the grocery store could have some things more consistently :-P
In other news, I really should eat more sweet potatoes. They are pretty perfect.
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