had quite a lot of spinach left over from my pasta sauce the other night, because I had planned to make a spinach pesto and then I ended up making something totally different. The next day I didn't feel like making the pesto any more, but I still had to do something with the spinach. So I did what I pretty much always do, I made soup.

I had it in my mind to make something lemony, so I made a avgolemono style soup. It not only used up my spinach, but it also used up a bit of leftover rice I had sitting in the refrigerator. I let the broth get a little too hot and my eggs curdled a little bit, but my husband didn't care, this is one of his favourite soups. I used an immersion blender to break the spinach up a bit, but I didn't completely puree it because I wanted a bit of texture in the soup. I like my soup really lemony, so experiment a bit with the amount of lemon you add. This is a vegetarian version, but if you had a bit of chicken you could add it as well.

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