Morning Glory : The Sunday Soups

-I am a college student.

-I am, 99% of the time, quite broke.

-If I am not eating food at the present moment, then I am likely hungry and/or thinking about food.

All of these things are related, you see.

As I mentioned in this post, when the school year gets crackin', eating becomes hard work. I try to find something portable, filling, and for the most part, instant.

The answer to that?

Sunday Soups.

I have discovered that if I cook up a big soup on Sunday, the only day when I typically have time, then I've got lunches and/or dinners to pop in the microwave for the next week.

I know you're not really supposed to eat the same thing for like a week straight, but come on now. It could be Ramen, after all.

But anyway, I wanted to try out soups because it doesn't cost much to cook up a big pot of it, they're healthy and they taste delicious. The good ones, at least.

There's a site I found that I like a lot, and it's actually where both of the soups I made came from!

It's called Oh She Glows.Seriously. Even the name is enticing. I found it and thought, "Yes. I too would like to glow. Show me how."

It's a site filled with delicious vegan recipes that even myself, who eats far too many chicken nuggets and animal by-products to be anything close to vegan, loves.

Last week, I made the Carrot-Apple-Ginger soup.

(Please enjoy the phone-camera quality of the following photos.)

- Recipes for both soups here. -

And because I wasn't thinking, I never got a picture of the finished product. But it turned out as a creamy, bright orange, flavorful bowl of happiness.

In one word, it would be fresh. But also very, very (surprisingly) filling. That sucker has a pound and a half of carrot ground up in it, not to mention one or two apples.

Yum.

And it's perfect for the onset of harvest-fresh apples!

This week's soup, which I am enjoying at the present moment, is the Red Lentil, Butternut Squash Curry soup.

Ok so...mine looks nothing like the photo for the recipe does. At all. But it's still wonderful!

I'm a sucker for curry, too. I ate a lot of Indian food in high school, considering many of my friends were Indian.

My best friend's parents own an Indian restaurant, so I've become horribly spoiled with that.

Anytime I go elsewhere, it's just...not right.

But I have to say, that soup is good. Like I-will-gladly-eat-it-every-single-day kind of good. And it smells awesome when it's cooking, as does anything cooked with onions and garlic.

So needless to say, I will be continuing the Sunday Soups tradition, at least until I run out of good soups to try.

(Which won't happen. I bought a cookbook. Get excited.)

Next weekend is the Pumpkin Festival round these parts, so I will post a recipe I crafted myself...the pumpkin spice smoothie! It's delicious. I can't wait.

As for this weekend, me, Tom, my roommate and her friend headed to the Marigold Festival, which was actually adorable. Such a fun day!

Except for the duck....