Soup Weather

A cold front blew through early Monday morning, bringing with it rain, wind, and highs in the 50s, for one day, at least.  After a mild summer and an unusually warm beginning to fall, it was a welcome change of pace.  Not so welcome, admittedly, was the part where I got soaked on the way to work Monday morning.  My bus ran about twenty minutes late (due to the weather and the ensuing traffic mayhem, of course), and my mile walk to the office was punctuated by sideways drizzle.  The first thing I did when I finally got to the office was make myself a cup of hot tea.

Today, the weather was nicer, with highs in the 70s, but I took the liberty of pronouncing it soup weather.  Claudia and I made the squash soup to end all squash soups a few years ago.  It was quite yummy, but all the chopping of different kinds of squashes was a lot of work, and it wasn't something we ever attempted again, though we remembered it fondly. 

Tonight, I took a page from the kitchen sink-ness of our squash soup of old, but I included lots of the (somewhat limp) vegetables we've had sitting in our refrigerator and haven't eaten yet.  We signed up for a local box from Greenling a few months ago, and while we've enjoyed it, we have a hard time thinking of things to do with eggplants and okra. 

So:  soup!  I made a big pot of random vegetable soup, which includes (but is not limited to) chicken, red potato, sweet potato, onion, zucchini, yellow summer squash, carrots, okra, Japanese eggplant, Thai eggplant, green beans, butternut squash, green peppers, and Ro-tel tomatoes.

Eggplant is, for the record, not my favorite vegetable (fruit?), but mixed in with all the other stuff, it's alright.  All the other veggies are quite good.