Today, in the “Les Halles” challenge, I made “soupe au pistou”, which is vegetable soup with pesto in it.  There was a lot of prep work that had to go into this, including slicing garlic, an onion, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, a leek, and a fennel bulb.  The vegetables were all sweated down and simmered with a bunch of chicken stock.

Next, elbow noodles and beans were added and cooked.  Finally, at the end, pesto was mixed in to give it some extra “pizzazz”.  I cheated a bit on the pesto.  Julie had a bunch frozen that I used instead of making my own.  The end result was still really good.  Not quite as good as the onion soup, but, in my opinion, way better than the fungus soup from yesterday.  This recipe made a lot, so some went to the Kings.  I am interested to hear if it gets better or worse overnight.