This is an excellent recipe, but also a template. You could use any greens, and any herbs. Instead of the potato, Thomas has bolstered the broth with arborio rice, yams, sautéed mushrooms, or squash. The caramelized onions are key for filling out the flavor of the soup, but there's no reason you couldn't use shallots or leeks instead. It's good for dinner parties, for brown bag lunches, and for dinners alone with a fridge of greens you don't know what to do with. Thomas has also used the soup to comfort very sick friends, who said it restored their appetite and brought them back to life a bit. Recipe adapted from <strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Soup-All-New-Vegetarian-Recipes/dp/0393332578/?tag=food52-20>Love Soup</a></strong> (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009).

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