What’s On Your Plate Blog Challenge – Ed’s Soup Shack

By the time most of you will be accessing this blog post on Feb 1st, I will be on a plane to Barbados after being kicked out by spending some quality time with Joanne in Ontario, first. I have been looking forward to this trip since my last one, in February 2020 – just before all hell broke loose and Canada went into lockdown.

One of my goals for this trip (besides relaxation and exploration) is to leave healthy, vacation healthy, and come home healthy. So far I have been “Novid” for Covid, and I’d really like to keep it that way. Thanks, Donna for teaching me this term! To that end, I’ve been super vigilant with hand sanitization and masking leading up to now and I have packed a lot of N95 masks and sanitizer in my carry-on to assist with this goal.

Imagine my dread then, when about 2 weeks ago now my daughter informed me she woke up with the worst sore throat and a fuzzy head. And my son-in-law wasn’t feeling good. Eeeek!!!! Luckily we had not spent much time in close contact in the couple of days prior to them falling ill, and now we agreed that they would isolate from me (and everyone else). Multiple negative covid tests later, it turned out to be either a bad cold or flu but regardless, not something I wanted to experience.

Still, I wanted to help them during their illness so I continued to walk Bowser every day and I did make them sustenance (dropped off just inside the door, with me in a mask). It was Ed’s Soup Shack to the rescue! Ed’s Soup Shack is a Vancouver Island business that makes gourmet soup mixes. I am a big fan, as you might infer from the photo, below.

My stash. Still no backsplash in the new kitchen…sigh

I made 2 batches of soup, to keep them nourished as they dealt with this virus. Firstly, it was Chicken n’ Wild Rice to the rescue.

This was my first time making this soup and I will definitely be buying it in the future. Very flavourful, and the addition of those mushrooms? *Chef’s kiss*

Once they finished this soup, a request came in for Mulligatawny – a family favourite.

Delightfully chunky soup (I don’t blend) with a little kick of spice.

Of course, I didn’t send ALL of the soup next door. I did reserve a couple of bowls of each for myself, purely for research and quality control purposes 😉. Ahem! Anyways, both kids are back on their feet and I am (knocking on my head wood) still virus-free.

So what’s on your plate this month? Do you have a go-to packaged mix (or two or more) that you turn to in times of desperation need? Do tell, in the Comments! And please join Donna and myself in blogging about What’s On Your Plate.

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Rock on,

The WB

51 thoughts on “What’s On Your Plate Blog Challenge – Ed’s Soup Shack

  1. I don’t use packages for anything. I love shopping daily and cooking what’s in season. That said, those soups looked very tasty and I’m sure your family were very grateful. Have a wonderful holiday.

  2. Carol

    Soup mix? Your heritage is in the land of soup makers! Just kidding. Looks delicious. Looking up if they send to Ontario. Enjoy your vacay sister.

  3. Sounds wonderful. Wish I had that resource. I’m not a fan of canned soup (at least when it’s used as soup) and I haven’t found an easy mix. Glad everyone is ok and stay healthy. Also send some heat. We’re having an arctic cold this weekend. Brrrrrr.

    1. Yes, arctic cold! Left in behind in Ontario and yesterday I got notification that it was going to be snowing on Vancouver Island. My timing seems to be perfect 🤩. Thanks, Kate 💕

    1. Saving them for the blog! (Also I didn’t tell anyone I was in Ontario and didn’t want to get a lot of “WHAT, why didn’t you let me know/come see me???” Thanks, Donna 💕

  4. m2muse

    There aren’t many mixes in my pantry but I do get the Untamed Feast products. The other go-to mix is chicken noodle soup mix when I’m feeling under the weather, like today. Like your kids, so far Novid for Covid but it’s something with respiratory s/s & a scratchy throat. You’ll soon be in your beach duds while I’m in my pj’s. It goes without saying but have a great holiday.

  5. Hi Deb, the soups look tasty although at the moment we are in a heat wave so soup is not on my mind. My husband had COVID at Christmas but I managed to avoid it. Have a fabulous holiday and it will certainly be warmer than where you live. Enjoy and thanks for hosting #WOYP. x

    1. Me too! My son-in-law and grandson had Covid in the summer, but my daughter and granddaughter managed to avoid it (and me too, of course)….I don’t know how or why. Thank you, Dawn 💕

  6. You are the absolute master of the strike through, and this one had me laughing! Can’t say I am much of a package person but I love making soup! Today, post vacation, I cleaned out the fridge and made a sort of carrot soup with a couple of extra dead veggies.

    1. Yes, we did have a great time and have planned our next adventure while in Ontario…which you might guess from what Jude was discussing in our last Zoom call 😉. Stay Novid!!! Thanks, Janis 💕

  7. Joyce

    The soup I can not pronounce 😂 has apples in it??? Wow … bet it tastes great!
    Glad you are still healthy and after tonight’s rest from flying ✈️, you can begin to enjoy that gorgeous beach and area … and maybe 🤞🏻 see another early rising of baby turtles from the sand nests on their way to the sea!
    Enjoy Barbados!!! 🇧🇧
    Love you sister 💕

  8. Hi Deb, Ed’s soup shack is new to me and I will hunt down. Yeah, excited to try it! Thank you for the photos and the inspiration. Loving your photos from your vacation!💕

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  10. debscarey

    Himself & I are also still Novid for Covid (I am also adopting that one) although we did succumb to that ghastly flu thing which your daughter & SIL (and everyone else) probably had. It was no fun at all, although certainly not as ghastly as Covid. Fortunately, we are fully vaccinated (for both flu & Covid) so were OK, if feeling the fatigue.

    Funnily enough, Mulligatawny is also a family favourite here from our days in India. Those Soup Shack packs looks the absolute biz! I have just enjoyed a pork belly, beans, chorizo & tomato slow-cooker stew – yummy!

  11. What an exciting range of soups! and so handy particularly in this situation.
    As I am thinking these days, there are worse things than Covid to catch at this point. So many around us have caught some dreadful strain of flu which takes them almost 2 weeks before they are completely better.

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