How to eat soup when it's 9 million degrees outside.

This how you eat soup when it's flippin' hot outside. This is a hot soup, but eating it during summer won't make you want to die, like, say...beef stew would.

Chicken and Hominy Soup with Lime and Cilantro

Ingredients

1 tablespoon canola oil
6 Green onions, sliced
2 teaspoons ground cumin
1 teaspoon paprika
1 (49.5 oz) can of chicken broth
1 (14 1/2 oz) can diced tomatoes in juice
4 boneless, skinless chicken thighs, cooked and chopped. (I like to season mine with chili powder and cumin, then toss them in the turbo broiler.)
Hot sauce to taste
1 (29 oz) can hominy in juice
1 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 Lime

Directions

Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add cumin and paprika, stir spices constantly for about a minute. Add broth, hominy with juice, green onions, tomatoes with juice, 1 tomato can filled with water and chicken. Add lime juice and hot sauce to taste; bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer 15 minutes. Garnish with cilantro just before serving. Enjoy.

Tune in next week for a second installment of summer friendly soups. The lovely Penelope will be making us the Vietnamese beef noodle soup known as Pho. (Pronounced "Fuh"...like you almost said something really naughty, but stopped yourself, because there were children present.)