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So I hope people reading yesterday’s miso soup recipe didn’t think it was “lazy” or “uninspired”.

I put a lot of thought into these soup recipes.

You try to come up with 30 different soup recipes and take the time to make them every day, and then take another hour or so to write about it, all while working around your regular hours at work. It’s hard stuff!

Today we’re going back to the basics, though. A bunch of ingredients, a pot, and some broth. Just a regular homemade soup.

Fifth day of September and we’re 1/6th of the way through the month. So many more soups to go, and yesterday’s soup, Chicken Tortilla, used a lot of ingredients. I’m sure there’s going to be some more soups with the same number of ingredients if not more, we’ll just have to wait and see.

I’m not yet sure what I want to do yet as a sort of “grand finale” when we hit the 30th soup. Should I rank them? Have the readers complete a poll and then write an extra post at the end as a recap for the month? I don’t know.

I know I want to do something, but if any of the readers here have any ideas once we hit the first of October, feel free to message me and let me know!

Let’s get on to the Labor Day soup

So with yesterday’s post, the Clam Chowder, I was honestly not too excited to make the next soup. I didn’t enjoy the result of the soup from yesterday, so it just put me down on cooking soup again, you know?

BUT I set out to make 30 soups for this month, so I’m not planning on backing out on day four. It’s certainly getting harder to cook every single day, but I’ll do it.

I have gotten some soup suggestions from some people reading these posts, and I appreciate them! I always enjoy when people tell me that they’re enjoying my posts so let me know your thoughts as we go through this month, and if you make any of these soups this month too let me know how it turns out!

Back at it again for some more soups. Yesterday I made some broccoli and cheddar soup, and once again today I am making a brand new soup.

(Side note: I always do this writing at night after work, and my cat always is BEGGING for my attention when I’m writing)

Welcome to day two of the month of Souptember! Yesterday I made a delicious Chicken Noodle soup, and have plenty of meals left over from it.

I do want to address one thing, however. I realized today that I made a mistake when making the chicken noodle soup. It’s a mistake that I don’t want to do again, because it will become harder to continue the month if I do so.

I made way too much soup.

I know it’s not a bad problem, but I only have so much room in my fridge, and I could freeze some soup but I only have so much containers for leftovers too.

I mean look at this

This is leftovers from just one soup. If I were to follow the same process with all the soups I cook this month, I’ll be out of space on day 4. I can’t cook that much anymore.

So from here on out, I will have to better portion my ingredients. No more meals made for eight people when I’m living by myself. Lower the soup level to one.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get on to day number two of Souptember.

September. My birth month. The start of fall. Some other third thing. It’s a great month in my opinion, and the start of fall means the start of having a lot of soups.

I’ve been wanting to do some more themed writings recently, so what I will do every day this month is make a recipe for a different soup. Every day. What will that mean for me? It means I have to find and cook a different soup 30 days in a row.

The goal is to get the current day’s soup posted here around noon, but because of work and time cooking, it may be delayed. I do still plan on making a different soup each day, and I do want to specify that I will not be making tomato soup, because that IS NOT A REAL SOUP. It’s a broth, or at the very least a dip for grilled cheese, and it’s just bad on it’s own. I will be making every soup except that one.

After all that said, welcome to Souptember.