If you feel that soup is too heavy to eat with the Thanksgiving meal, consider making soup to eat with Friday leftovers.
I don't remember having snow on Thanksgiving in many many years. However, when I was growing up in New Jersey, it was not unusual to see snow as early as Thanksgiving.
🎵 Does anyone remember the old popular Thanksgiving song called, 'Over the River and Through the Woods (link to the song on Youtube). The lyrics describe a snowy cold Thanksgiving Day traveling on sleigh to Grandma's house for the holiday meal. 🎵
To my point -snow used to be common on Thanksgiving!!!
Regardless, we eat soup on Thanksgiving.
Today I'm sharing six of my favorite plant-based fall soup recipes that are perfect starters for the Thanksgiving meal or with leftovers the next day.
1. Roasted Chestnut Soup - Truly a special soup to make on Thanksgiving using roasted chestnuts. Chestnuts have a creamy sweet flavor and make a wonderful rich Thanksgiving soup. I buy chestnuts in bags at the local supermarket at holiday time.
2. Pumpkin Red Lentil Soup- Pumpkin is the flavor of the season and lentils add protein and give this this soup a hearty satisfying texture. It's an easy nutritious soup that everyone will enjoy.
3. Brussels Sprouts Soup - Nothing says fall like Brussels sprouts and this delicious soup can be whipped up and cooked in under 20 minutes. I use frozen baby Brussels sprouts along with other seasonal vegetables. You will love the flavor of this wonderful Thanksgiving soup.
4. Butternut Squash Sage Soup- Winter squashes a perfect for soup, especially butternut squash with its sweet flavor and robust texture. I love the yellow color and the uniqueness that sage adds to this soup.
5. Hearty Red Lentil Vegetable Soup - A thick and hearty vegetable soup perfect the colder fall and winter weather. Lentils add flavor, fiber, and protein for a nourishing soup.
I love the presentation of soup in a beautiful acorn squash. The cooked squash is fun to eat along with your soup (chestnut soup in the acorn squash in this photo).
7. Leek, Chickpea, and Spinach Noodle Soup- a brothy flavorful soup filled with hearty chickpeas, carrots, greens, and GF noodles.
Remembering Thanksgiving Song from my past.
🎶 Over The River and Through The Woods to Grandmother's House We Go 🎵.
The lyrics to this popular old Thanksgiving song was written by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802-1880). Lydia taught school until 1828 until she wed Boston lawyer David Lee Child. Child was a remarkable women who wrote the first anti-slavery book in the USA in 1833.
She was an abolitionist, human rights activist, and civil rights promoter. Interestingly with all of her contritubtions, she is best remembered for writing the lyrics to this song.
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Soups are good. I like them all year long, but esp. in cold days...eating a cup of steaming hot fresh homemade soup is a bless :-))
ReplyDeleteI'm with you Angie. I like soup all year long too.
DeleteWonderful soup ideas. I will give the recipes a look!
ReplyDeleteGreat Marie, hope you find one that you like.
DeleteLydia Maria Francis? Is this an alternate name? I checked, and read this: “ Over the River and Through the Wood” was originally published in 1844 as a poem written by Lydia Maria Child. The poem was published in Child’s book of poems Flowers for Children, Volume 2, and was originally titled “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day.” In time, Child’s poem was set to music by an unknown composer”
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Hi Mae,
DeleteThanks for pointing that out . Actually her name changed to Child when she married David Lee Child. I made the correction. Thanks
I will be trying the red lentil soup. It sounds delicious. The weather has turned cold here so it's officially soup weather.
ReplyDeletePlease let me know if like it or if you made any adjustments to suit your preferences.
DeleteMarvelous soup ideas! Yumm!
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday, Judee!
Marvelous soup ideas. Yummm!
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday, Judee!
Where I live, too, snow is as likely as not on Thanksgiving. And like you, I've always thought that a good soup is a good way to start out a Thankgsgiving meal.
ReplyDeleteWonderful ideas for Thanksgiving!......Abrazotes, Marcela
ReplyDeleteSoups are so good especially during cooler months.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
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What a great idea to use acorn squash halves for soup bowls, I can't wait to try that!
ReplyDeleteI tell you what, I eat soup all of the time. I freakin' love it. For breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper or snack. Get in my belly.
ReplyDeleteI love soup and can drink it everyday. Thanks for sharing all your lovely recipes, Judee!
ReplyDeleteOh my so many delicious soups. The hard part is deciding which one to try first. We are not even big Brussel sprout fans but that looks so nourishing. Might have to start at the top and work our way down.
ReplyDeleteYou sure are the soup maven. The butternut squash and sage soup sounds like it would be delicious and I'll pin this post.
ReplyDeleteThese sound yummy; I have never thought of preparing soup for Thanksgiving but we do eat a lot of soup after trying to use up some of the leftovers.
ReplyDeleteSoup season is upon us and this does look so good. Saw your post at Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot!
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Oh these all sound delicious. Thanks so much for sharing these plant based soup ideas. My husband and I are trying to each more plant based meals and these recipes will certainly help. Thanks for joining us at #WeekendTrafficJamReboot and I have selected your post as one of my favourites to feature in this week's link up. Have a great week! Sue L x
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