Yeah! Look up white bean soup or navy bean soup, those are the classics. I was just spit balling though - my favorite thing about soup is you can put whatever the heck you want in there.
Edit to add: Pumpkin soups are totally awesome too! One of the best ones I ever had was pumpkin soup filled with chunks of seafood and served in a roasted pumpkin. At first I was like "seafood, pumpkin? Blegh." But then I tasted it and I was like "oh damn".
Marinara is a sauce made primarily with tomatoes, cooked down to the desired thickness. Usually dark, well cooked and rich. Gazpacho is a chilled soup made with raw vegetables, blended together. Tomato is usually used as a base but it's not always the main ingredient. You can make lots of different gazpachos. A bloody Mary is a cocktail made with straight tomato juice, no cooking or blending involved. You would not toss your pasta in this, unless you were an alcoholic that liked to eat disgusting pasta.
Rustic veggie soups, different kinds of chili (yes I consider chili a type of soup), blended soups, soups with noodles in em, ramen (yes, it's soup), stews, bean soups... It's all good.
If it wasn't for a HD crash in 2003, I would still have MP3s from the 90s.
You just made me sad thinking about the huge music library I used to have. I've recently started downloading again, but my tastes were so different back then I don't think I'll ever remember it all.
Yeah I don't think they need to have a black base to be a tortie, as far as I know. I never had pets growing up and these are my first two fur babies, so I'm not an expert.
But they definitely seem to have a unique temperament compared to other cats I have met. At least this one, lol.
Yeah they are both getting close to the double digit mark. Henry is a year older and is definitely in his old cat phase of just wanting to sit in the tower all day, only coming down for meals or belly rubs. He is way more friendly to strangers too.
There is definitely something about them! I didn't even know what a tortie was til we took her to the vet the first time. I just thought she looked real cute at the humane society.
You guys have friends?