*.Soup

I am beginning to think that the following formula works reasonably well for soup.
Saute onions in olive oil. Add *, sufficiently preprocessed (which is a function of *), add boiled potato (or sweetpotato, depending on *) for thickening, cook it all bit, and then puree with milk.

This post is inspired by * = canned beet. Here preprocess = canned, thickener = potato, and I also added some fat-free half and half that I had.

I absolutely swear that most of the soups I make seem to fall into this category. They also seem to be fairly popular (at least with me :P), so (used with good sense and understanding) I think this is a fairly general solution to soup :D