Consult Your Physician…This Soup Is a 10.0

Alright, let’s be honest for a second…this whole Soup Club blog thing is getting a little out of hand. We’re talking about maybe one or two readers out there. Do I seriously have to write a blog every single time I even look at a stove knob? WTF!

Anyway…spoiler alert. I’m giving this soup a 10.0 before the story even starts. Lock it in.

This one is modeled after something that has been near and dear to my body for over 12 years…green juice. There was a stretch of life where I was basically powered by green juice. I’m talking full juice fasts. Lots of them. The longest was 105 days. Yes, one hundred and five. Please consult your physician…and probably your therapist.

The inspiration for this leafy legend actually came from Soup Surgeon Jenn’s house. She was planning to do a few days of raw juice and hadn’t really juiced in bulk before. Enter me. I am absolutely not a rookie when it comes to producing industrial-level quantities of green juice. I realized in that moment how much I had missed the whole process. The chaos. The pulp explosions. The smell of vegetables, ginger, lime...

So the plan with this soup was simple. Use most of the classic green juice ingredients and turn them into an actual soup situation. I skipped the apple and cucumber because historically I never used those in my old pulp broths. Now that I’m thinking about it, I might try a remix version next time where I ditch the agave and bring apple back into the lineup.

The real star here was the leafy green crew. I went heavy. Like souper heavy. I also made sure there was a strong ginger presence, plus lemon juice and lime. Not just juice. I peeled the lime and tossed the flesh in too. We’re not here to play small.

Now here’s where things got ridiculous. As you can see from the stove top situation, I made so much soup that there was physically no room for the roasted potatoes. So the potatoes got promoted to Bottomer™ status. Clutch move. I was dangerously low on frozen soup reserves because I have this annoying habit of bringing entire batches into the office and giving them away like a soup philanthropist. Not this time, people. This one was staying home. And let’s be real, I highly doubt the Campbell’s Crew™ would have been lining up for leafy green energy soup anyway. This is a long way from Pizza Soup territory.

Kevin did stop by and had a bowl. He seemed genuinely happy. No official score. That’s fine. I wasn’t chasing numbers on this one. I was chasing that feeling…where you eat a massive amount of soup, feel completely full, and somehow also feel like you could run a 5K or reorganize your entire garage. Mission accomplished. What a boring blog!