A good way to change out the soup is make it a curry. We use a small amount of lentils or mung daal . Generally, we cook the lentils with sweet potato or squash. After these are cooked toss in lots of vegetables, whatever you have. Chard. Spinach. Cauliflower. Asparagus. Tomatoes. Just about any veggie you can think of.

The spouse toasts pumpkin seeds in an iron pan and tosses them in. Toss in some raisins. He cooks the curry spices in a bit of ghee and that is the last thing that goes in the soup. Oh, except for a bit of one kind or another hot sauce. We like our soups spicy.