Kale and White Bean Soup

If you are like me, you have spent the last 4 days eating too much food, drinking too much wine, and generally living in a food coma state. For me, it all started Thursday morning with an ice cream sandwich for breakfast (don't judge me). It was all went downhill from there. Thursday afternoon led to too much food. Thursday night led to too much wine. Friday morning led to too much coffee. This sequence repeated for the next 3 days. Fast forward to last night. My wayward food ways had led me  to a full blown flare up. Feeling terrible and desperately craving some easy comfort food, I went to my happy place: soup. Soup is amazing because it's 1. easy to make, 2. tasty as all get out, 3. has the ability to soothe the most savage of GI tracts. Last night's coup du jour: lazy mom's Kale and White Bean Soup.

Kale and White Bean Soup:

Ingredients:
32 ounce of water
1 onion, finely chopped
8-10 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
3 carrots, finely chopped
2 cans of canneli beans
2 cups of kale, finely chopped
1.5 teaspoons of thyme
1 teaspoon of onion powder
1/3 cup of nutritional yeast
2 vegetable bouillon cubes
White wine
Olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Toss finely chopped onion and garlic into a hot pan with olive oil. Saute until your onions start to caramelize. Add enough white wine to deglaze the bottom of the pan. Let the wine cook down. 
2. Combine all remaining ingredients in a crockpot. Add the onions and garlic mixture to your crockpot and put on low to cook for 8 hours.
3. To plate, pour your soup over a grain of your choice. I chose barley because it was already cooked and sitting in my fridge (I didn't even warm the barley up. Told you, lazy mom). Rice, particularly the wild rice variety, also goes great with this. Salt and pepper your soup to your taste preference. Serve with some yummy bread and bam you have dinner within 5 minutes of getting home from work.

**Note, if you don't have a crockpot or want soup in faster than 8 hours, take step 2 to a regular soup pot, but allow all the ingredients to simmer for at least 30 minutes. No one wants crunchy carrots in their soup :)

Beans, greens, and a grain. A super easy, weekday night meal waiting to great you when you walk in the door. Enjoy!