You better believe we are having soup on this very cold summer day in San Francisco.

Actually my mother asked for soup and toasty pita bread – and since she is the queen of my heart – she gets what she wants.

So I trekked to Safeway, and picked up some of the missing ingredients needed for these two recipe (here and here) ideas I plan to combine or make with my version of Chicken orzo-ish soup:

The reason for my undecisivness is the ingredients which my mother doesn’t approve of in either soup and my need to challenge myself in creating her dream soup.

So we are going to get creative

Which soup do you fancy? And do you have an absolute-not ingredient?