Oooh, I make lots of soups. At home and for work.
I separate in to easy-soups and faff-soups 😆
There is always lefts over cooked veg in the freezer, and I chop and bag any and all scraps - think broc and cauliflower stalks, celery ends/frods etc - these usually get used for easy blended soups when there's enough of any one thing.
Always use decent quality stock cubes, game changer. No more bland soups!
I LOVE my nutri bullet for making soups extra smooth. But also for chopping soffrito veg super quick and easy, and even from frozen if small enough portions.
Carrot soup is notoriously watery/bland. You have to cook almost a puree carrot then add (good quality stock) to thin down.
My fave easy soup is lentils and bacon. We cook a gammon ham in the slow cooker covered with water (you can add stock veg if you like but we don't as this is tasty enough without) when the gammon iss cooked, take out and chuck in half a bag of lentils and cook for another hour our so. Top with bits of crispy bacon. That's it, it's bloody lovely, this one NEVER has left overs 😆
French Onion is also super easy and satisfying.
Fave Faff-Soups, not necessarily complicated, just take a bit of planning...
Anything where I re-roast a carcass to shred and make stock - worth it for Asian soups and chicken noodle etc
Roasted pepper if a faff but loooverly.
Real proper tomato soup with real proper tomatoes!!! - mega faff but you only need Tom's, onion, butter and water and tastes like heaven 😋