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Most Sundays, I'll rummage through the fridge and freezer and throw together a pot of soup for weekday lunches. I'll mention whatever I'm making in the fanbinding discord server sometimes, and someone inevitably asks for the recipe, so I've started occasionally writing things down. Here's this week's soup, and a few from the past month or so, mostly for easy linking reference later.

Liminal Zone Chicken Vegetable Soup

Half an onion
2-3 carrots
3-4 stalks of celery
1/3 cup of lentils
1/2 cup of corn
1-2 chicken breasts or equivalent
4-5 cups of chicken stock
A bay leaf
1 tsp dried parsley
Black pepper
1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

If your chicken isn't cooked, cut it into bite-sized pieces and brown it first. Take it out of the pot. Put a little bit of olive oil or butter in the pot on medium heat. Dice the onion and carrot and celery into whatever bite-sized pieces you prefer. Add the onion, let it brown for a minute or two, add the carrot, give it another couple minutes, add the celery. (I add them as I chop them, in that order. Toss in a bay leaf if you want. Add the lentils, corn, chicken stock, dried parsley, and simmer for 15-20 minutes until the lentils are done. Add some black pepper (3-4 twists of the pepper grinder, I didn't measure) and a splash of apple cider vinegar at the end after turning off the heat but before serving.

To live up to the name, sub three stalks of wilting green onion from the bottom of the crisper drawer for the half onion, whatever is salvageable from the browning celery you bought a week before Christmas for the finite quantity of 3-4 stalks, and eat at 3:30 pm after sleeping in past ten and only grazing on nuts, chocolate, and potato chips earlier in the day, accompanied by toast with cream cheese and leftover cranberry sauce, before emerging blinking into the last half hour of daylight to go for a walk with a winter jacket thrown over top of your pajamas.

( Thai Panang Curry Soup )

(  Italian sausage, kale and potato soup )

( Cheddar-Potato-Chive Soup )