It's so difficult to find a good vegetarian soup! Anybody who reads this blog knows that I love me some soup. Being a vegetarian, however, makes it very, very difficult to find a good soup that fits into my diet. Vegetarian canned soups at the store are plentiful, but exremely disappointing. Restaurant soups are almost always non-vegetarian. I usually end up making my own soups at home. But, when I want soup the most -- when I'm sick with a cold or a fever -- making soups is the last thing I want to do, or sometimes am even capable of doing. Dan's always willing to run around like a crazy person all over town finding and getting me whatever I want when I'm ill, but the problem still remains that no soups that I want or can eat seem to be out there.
I have been fighting off a cold or something for a few days now, and all I've wanted is soup. After an exhaustive search online, Dan stumbled on a soup restaurant that we've never noticed before: Zoup. It's a chain, and there is one in Denver. It's not really near us at all, but the drive isn't so bad as long as it's not rush hour. We checked out the online menu, and the first thing I noticed is that they marked each of their soups whether it's vegetarian. They have numerous selections every day, and from what I've seen they have two or three vegetarian options daily, which for a (non-vegetarian) restaurant is actually quite a lot.
Dan ventured out to bring home every one of their soups that I was willing to eat so I'd be stocked up when he went off to work. Each soup was good. I wouldn't say it's the best soup I've ever had, but it's good enough that I'm totally willing to establish it as a regular soup-getting place for when I can't make the soup. And really, that's saying a lot. Because it's so difficult to find a good vegetarian soup!!
That Dan is good people:)
ReplyDeleteYou know, my roommate has been making home-made soups a lot this Fall. She isn't a vegetarian, but her soups are. She's just been experimenting with roasting veggies that she loves and different spice mixtures (although, always cayenne!:)) When you are feeling up to it - maybe you could make a couple batches and freeze your own?
I do that sometimes, but didn't have any pre-made soup in the freezer this time when I got sick. The other problem is, when I'm sick I get very very picky about what I want to eat, so sometimes we have soup in the house but it's not what I want. I'm an awful person when I'm sick, I know.
ReplyDeletezoup is a good place. there are a bunch of locations in the detroit area (i think it's their home base), including in the renaissance center. used to go there quite a bit when i worked there. yum. i'll check my recipes and see if i can come up with a few veggie options for you.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I always love new soup ideas. If you are what you eat, I'm definitely a big bowl of soup. Well, a big bowl of somthin', anyway.
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