It was a rare rainy day in California and me and my family were in varying stages of illness. I can’t think of a better day to make soup.

I decided on vegetable soup aka stone soup the carrot version. This chicken broth based soup has carrots, onion, celery, garlic, ginger, rosemary, thyme and potato. Dorie gives the option of keeping the soup as is or puree it.  I decided to serve whole pieces which was nice as everyone was needing a broth based soup. The leftovers I pureed as Dorie stated was her preference but I preferred the whole version.

As to the picture, I blame my illness:)

Spur-of-the-moment Vegetable Soup can be found on page 74 of Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan.