What is a Souper Challenge???

I love soup. Eating it, smelling it, cooking it. I love wandering around at a farmer's market until the seasonal veggies call to me to take them home and dump them in a pot of boiling water... So when I found a new cookbook with a soup recipe for every week of the year using seasonal ingredients, I felt a self-challenge coming on.

This is my attempt at making 1 new soup recipe per week for 2011:

My Souper Challenge!

The name of the cookbook is Sunday Soup by Betty Rosbottom. She deserves the real credit. There are a few more than 52 recipes, so I will pick and choose from each season. I'm hardly a chef so many of these ingredients will be new to me both preparing and tasting, but I like to live dangerously that way. Also, the book provides several shopping and technical tips which is great for a novice like me.

In this blog, I hope to record the ingredients I used, where to find them and how much they cost. I hope readers will learn along with me and maybe try some of the recipes. I can't promise they will all turn out good, but I do promise to be as honest as I can when describing the final results. So if you love soup, please check back frequently to see how I'm doing with my Souper Challenge. Your comments, encouragement and tips are greatly appreciated.