Warm up to winter with a soup-er idea from the IN Kitchen
Soup’s on!
While the natural response to Minnesota’s long, harsh winters may be dread for most, here at IN Food, we give ourselves a few reasons to smile this season. One of our favorites is soup days!
If you’ve been following the happenings at IN for a while, you might be familiar with our beloved Soup Day tradition. If you’re new around here, welcome! And here’s the deal. When the weather starts to turn, team members each choose a day to wow the others with a lunch consisting of soup or a favorite comfort food.
Although we DO love a good soup, we aren’t the type to discriminate against more solid comfort food choices, including what Betsy brought for this season’s first soup day.
Taco ‘bout a delicious lunch!
The chef: Betsy
The dish: Shredded chicken walking tacos
Perhaps Betsy’s upcoming vacation to warm Latin America inspired her soup day menu. Or, maybe, she simply wanted a fun reason to enjoy some Nacho Doritos. Either way, on a cold December day we can’t blame her.
While Walking Tacos, or “Taco in a Bag,” might sound like a simple meal, Betsy didn’t slack on this Soup Day choice! Going away from the classic ground beef taco meat, Betsy opted for juicy shredded chicken and impressed us all with her crockpot skills.
No one was surprised when not a single fixing was missed. Betsy treated us to all of the staples as well as freshly prepared guacamole, black beans, cilantro and even lime wedges for a fresh zest.
The cheesier the better
The chef: Abby
The dish: Hearty beer cheese soup
When it comes to soup, and jokes, I prefer the cheesy ones. When I heard about IN’s Soup Days, I knew I had to ask my mom for the recipe that she’s been using for the past several winters. My “Hearty Beer Cheese Soup” with potatoes, veggies, ground beef, and of course plenty of cheese and beer, filled all our stomachs with cheesy goodness and had my coworkers asking for the recipe as well!
A unanimous Midwestern favorite
The chef: Maggie
The dish: Tater tot hotdish
Just as Soup Days have become a tradition in our office, so has Maggie’s tater tot hotdish. Providing the delicious combination of crispy tater tots, veggies, and of course – cheese – what more could we Midwesterners want? Whether we are from Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska or Wisconsin like Maggie, this is one meal we can all agree upon. Football teams? Not so much.
Although our commutes may be longer, we are motivated by a warm reward waiting for us in our favorite form: delicious food. With at least one more month of winter ahead of us, we’re looking forward to Ciara’s take on a creamy tortellini soup and Anita’s tried-and-true white bean and Italian sausage chili. We have a few undecided chefs in the office, so if you have a favorite soup recipe, send it our way and we just might all gather around your suggestion!