It’s Soup Season: Spinach Chicken Parmesan Soup
Warm, comfy soup recipe reverse engineered from my favorite teashop
My mother and I have a teashop habit. Or we used to before the pandemic —no new story there. We would meet up Our favorite was a small tearoom in Plymouth, Michigan, called Sweet Afton. Not only did they serve your table tea in a myriad of delicate, floral patterned cups and saucers — a kitschy touch much preferred to the slick, modern monochrome mugs and teapots at other teashops — but they had really good food. It was tearoom fare, so keep that in mind, but soup and scone was always a good bet. Or a ploughman’s lunch. Or anything served with one of their cheddar muffins.
Okay, now I want a cheddar muffin.
Their soups changed everyday. There was often one that seemed vaguely familiar — a chicken noodle, or a broccoli cheddar — but the one I always ordered was the one where I couldn’t be certain I’d ever heard those ingredients combined together to make the name of the soup. Like their Spinach Chicken Parmesan Soup.
Both my mother and I ordered the Spinach Chicken Parmesan Soup and loved it. We peppered our server with questions about it. When my mother heard that it wasn’t a regular staple on the menu — that the main chef played with recipes and went with what they were…
