Rainy Cabin Soup

Today, I didn't feel like cooking. I attempted to research some soup ideas since my dad is visiting and caught whatever virus strain had filtered through our house recently. But when sick soup can do wonders, right?

Allrecipes.com had some good recipes, but I never seemed to quite have everything needed to make them.

So dad encouraged me to conduct an experiment with whatever I had. I grabbed stuff that sounded like it would go in a soup. Potatoes, black beans, corn, spinach, broth and a few other items. Few of my inventions have ever turned out to anything more than barely edible.

Today was different. The soup was edible!

Thought I'd share the recipe. I'm calling it Rainy Cabin Soup since it feels like the perfect thing to eat on a rainy day in a cozy cabin, seriously.

Ingredients:

32 oz of Chicken Broth (33% less Sodium)

1 cup of water

1 lb. of organic riced cauliflower

2 Fistfuls of Spinach (chopped)

1 can of black beans

1 can of corn

1 1/2 lbs of chicken (boneless & skinless)

1/2 onion

1 package of onion mix seasoning

3 large potatoes

1 Tbsp of rubbed sage

Instructions:

1. Saute chicken in instant pot until outside is mostly browned.

2. Throw all ingredients raw into instant pot. Mix/stir with wooden spoon.

3. Click "Pressure", setting "high."

4. Turn knob above the instant pot to the "sealing" option.

5. Enjoy!

Tip: If you do venting on the knob all the liquid will evaporate and it will no longer be soup.

I was commenting to my dad at dinner how funny it was that the soup was born on a sunny spring afternoon, the trees blossoming, sun shining across the lawn at sunset and there is no rain to be seen even though the meal seems perfect for a rainy day in a cabin somewhere.

Less than two hours later it rained out of nowhere with even a few lightning bolts thrown in there. Maybe it really is rainy cabin soup.