Red Pepper, Tomato, Carrot Purée Soup

Purée Soup number 2, and certainly not the last. My apologies if you're not a fan. I've been taking them to work for lunch or as an afternoon snack/pick me up. These soups are hard to beat- super simple, quick, and crazy nutritious. Win, win, win. Once again, I'm sure you can vary the vegetable ratios in this recipe, but this is just what I used.

The evening I cooked this soup I made it into a meal by serving it with a grilled sandwich on whole grain bread with havarti cheese, hot coppa salami, and a touch of grainy mustard.

Green Vegetable Purée Soup

Leaves are turning, days are shortening, and I've started to crave apples, roasted root vegetables, and stew. Alas, the weather has not cooperated with my cravings (ninety degree heat waves are not stew friendly) and has forced me to compromise, for now. Enter veggie purée. Quick, convenient, versatile, pantry friendly, and incredibly nutritious- I blended several vegetables together on a whim and created a smooth and silky soup. The amounts I listed below were mostly out of convenience. I happened to have half a bag of peas in the freezer and one zucchini in the fridge when I constructed this recipe. Go wild. Use two zucchinis if you have them.

A few examples of other Purée friendly vegetables:
-Celery Root
-Fennel Root
-Turnip
-Leeks
-Celery
-Sweet potato
-Cauliflower