I decided that Jaques Pepin's series that I mostly watched ("Fast Food My Way") has a good starting point for me. Seeing something on the teevee isn't my preferred way of learning much, however. It is hard to read the captioning while watching the "action" so I decided to go off to the library and find Pepin's two books on the subject. In the first pages of the first book, he introduces to what he calls "Instant Vegetable Soup!" "Elegant enough to serve guests" in about 10 minutes of prep and cooking time? Well, I guess but, still, this is one fast & easy way to make use of fresh veggies. I've even got some fresh veggies! I don't know how many light frosts we've had (weeks?!) but the bok choy, which can toughen with frosts, seems to have adjusted to them this year! I had a bag full to bring home from garden clean-up on Friday. Maybe I will make this soup with bok choy this afternoon. It is raining now and the wind will build thru the day! Really getting to hard freezing overnight Monday! Yep, no doubt about it: We've reached soup season. Steve Here is a link that might be useful: Jauques Pepin's recipe

Yum, that looks good, Terri. Like Minsue, I had saltines, mine had peanut butter on them. I ate at Olive Garden yesterday afternoon and spent last night being sick, I didn't like Olive Garden before, now I really don't like it! wish I'd have had Terri's soup instead..... Annie

I understand what you mean, sunday seems like a real day off, saturday not so much. I would make a nice home made pizza with a salad, dessert

I agree, it looks delicious and would keep me going for most of the day. I like your serving dishes too. Annie