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Realized it is not only the perfect time of year for soup, it's the perfect time of life for it! With Baby Ellie rocking 8 weeks of being an outside baby, dinner prep is at its best when intensely flexible. Making a pot of soup at the beginning of the week can be a real dinner saver!

Happened to catch this soup recipe last week, a "Rustic Vegetable and Polenta Soup" from Giadia De Laurentiis. She's a little intense, mostly because she gives the impression of trying to make those Nigella Lawson bedroom eyes at you through the camera. It's a great recipe, and if you do have/pick up instant polenta it's a super fast one, too. There was a bunch of regular ol' non-instant polenta in my cupboard, so I used that (which only increases the idle cook time, so no big fuss there).

Bonus: Adam swears it tastes even better reheated a couple days later!