This cookbook is fantastic!! It's definitely a favorite of mine and everything I've made from it has been wonderful.

I was so pleasantly surprised when I made the asparagus soup because it has fennel and I'm not a fan of fennel but it gave it the absolute perfect complexity of flavor. I was blown away.

Another aspect about this book that I adore is that towards the end Anna Thomas includes things that would round out a soup meal like various recipes for breads and other accompaniments.

I need to write a more thorough review when I have the book in front of me so I can see all of my cooking and tasting notes that I write in the margins but just know that I have a long list of recipes from here on my "to try" list. I just need to get through the soups that are already in my freezer because otherwise there's no room (I'm the only vegetarian in my house and the primary soup-lover too, meaning I could eat soup for 2 out of the 3 daily meals but my family can probably have soup for one meal a week at the maximum - so sad for me in a way, but then I have more soup all to myself! LOL!)

I've tried and LOVED:

Green Soup (LOVE IT!!)

Zucchini Basil Soup 

Asparagus Bisque (without the cream)

Here's a few of the recipes I still want to try:

Fall/Winter

Pickle Soup (Mushroom, Barley, & Vegetable Soup, Love Soup, p.186)

Kabocha Squash and Cranberry Bean Stew (Love...

I love this book.  It's such a good read!  So far, I've only made the green soup, and it was delicious.  Can't wait to make some more soups, and some of the delicious-sounding accompaniments.  

I just got it from the library yesterday and am already chomping at the bit to make recipes from it! Looks fabulous and delicious.

Update: I have now bought a copy, but the first recipe I made (Green Soup) came out very weird. I followed the direction to puree, and let me tell you, cooked spinach turns to slime when it is pureed. I am regretting not paying attention to Heidi Swanson's riff, on the 101cookbooks site, to NOT puree it. I believe it would have been a much more appealing soup. Also, I was going to follow the Love Soup recipe for gazpacho, but happily I first read around in my other soup cookbooks, and learned from the Splendid Soups author that authentic gazpacho is never pureed or whizzed in a blender. I hand-chopped nearly everything and got the best gazpacho of my life. So Love Soup is going in my side-pile mentally labeled "cookbooks of which I'm a little skeptical."

I love soup, I love this book.  The well tested recipes ensure successful outcomes. If you like vegetables, you can't go wrong.  My favorite recipe is the basic Green Soup.  It nourishes my soul.