Nothing says "soup" like the cold weather! National Homemade Soup Day was created to encourage us to take advantage of the health benefits, low cost and delicious tastes of homemade soup. Grande Vegas online casino makes it easier than ever to add easy-to-make homemade soups to your menu so you have a tasty and nutritious meal to accompany your gaming entertainment.
National Homemade Soup Day
National Homemade Soup Day is a special February day that was created to recognize the health benefits and rich culinary history of homemade soups. Soups have been a staple of every society throughout recorded history, with each culture adapting their soups to their specific tastes and available produce.
You can buy take-out soups or use powdered soup mixes but homemade soups are the best. They help you control the amount of sodium and preservatives and maximize the amount of fresh produce so you get more nutrients in every spoonful.
The winter season is a great time to try out different soup recipes as you maximize fresh ingredients and connect with family and friends over a warm, nutritious meal.
Easy Soups to Try
To optimize a soup meal, cook up a huge pot with plenty of root vegetables and leafy greens and store the stock in small containers to be added to your soups for added nutrition. Some easy soups include:
Orange Soup
- Sauté 1 chopped onion and 3 cloves of chopped garlic in a pot.
- Peel 2 carrots, a chunk of pumpkin/orange squash and 1 large sweet potato. Boil them in the pot with the onion and garlic.
- Remove the pumpkin/squash, sweet potato and carrots after they've cooked thoroughly and blend them in a food processor. Return the blended vegetables to the pot.
- Add a tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp pepper. Add 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp ginger and 1 tsp cumin.
- Cook together for half an hour. You can add orange lentils if you wish for extra iron content.
- Serve with a swirl of cream on top.
Potato/Celery Soup
- Cook a whole head of celery, including the leaves, with 3 potatoes and 6-8 cloves of garlic.
- Remove the celery, garlic and potatoes from the pot, peel the potatoes and blend everything in a food processor.
- Return the blended celery and potatoes to the stock pot and cook together with 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp pepper and 1 tsp cumin.
- Add 1/2 cup soy/oat milk and cook on a low flame (or in a slow-cooker) for at least another hour.
Barley Soup
- Chop 2 carrots, 2 stalks of celery, and 1 onion. Sauté the vegetables until they are soft.
- Add the chopped/sautéed vegetables to 2 cups of soup stock together with 1/2 cup of barley.
- Add 1 Tbsp. chicken-flavored soup powder.
- Cook on a low fire for at least an hour.
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Bonus rounds include:
- An Extra Sauce Feature which is activated when the green pot overflows to expand the gameboard to 5x3. When the Extra Sauce feature is activated, Green Dumpling symbols attach to the multiplier which displays over the Extra Sauce Pot to award a multiplier of up to x10.
- An Extra Flames Feature which is activated when the red pot overflows to expand the gameboard to 5x3. When the Extra Flames feature activates, Red Dumplings that were collected in the Red Pot will add a multiplier to the Multiplier coin. That multiplier value increases with every spin throughout the feature.
- Extra Sauce and Extra Flames feature which is activated when the green and red pots overflow to expand the gameboard to 5x3.
- A Jackpot feature which is activated when the yellow pot overflows to expand the gameboard to 5x6. When the Jackpot feature activates, Yellow Dumpling symbols will reveal a jackpot prize -- the MINI Jackpot, the MINOR Jackpot or the MAJOR Jackpot. If you collect 3 GRANDE Jackpot Dumplings, you'll receive the GRANDE Jackpot prize!
- Jackpot and Extra Sauce features which are trig activated when the green and yellow pots overflow to expand the gameboard to 5x6.
- Jackpot, Extra Sauce and Extra Flames feature which are activated when the yellow, green and red pots overflow to expand the gameboard to 5x6.
The Hold and Spin feature activate randomly. When it activates, you'll see Coin, Dumplings or blank symbols displayed. Coin symbols that land when the Hold & Spin feature is active will lock in place to award you 3 Respins plus:
- If the Extra Flames, Extra Sauce or Extra Sauce and Extra Flames features are triggered, the gameboard will expand to include 15 independent reels.
- If the Jackpot, Jackpot and Extra Flames, Jackpot and Extra Sauce, Extra Sauce and Extra Flames features are activated, the gameboard will expand to include 30 independent reels.
- When the Hold and Spin feature ends, all Coin Multipliers that appear on the reels will have an Extra Sauce Multiplier added.
Celebrate National Homemade Soup Day with some healthy soup and some culinary-themed slots entertainment!
