Cozy Autumn Wild Rice Soup

Ingredients

• 6 cups vegetable stock (or chicken stock)

• 1 cup uncooked wild rice

• 8 oz baby bella mushrooms, sliced

• 4 cloves garlic, minced

• 2 medium carrots, diced

• 2 ribs celery, diced

• 1 large sweet potato (about 1 lb), peeled and diced

• 1 small white onion, peeled and diced

• 1 bay leaf

• 1½ tbsp Old Bay seasoning

• 1 (14 oz) can unsweetened coconut milk (or see cream sauce option below)

• 2 large handfuls of kale, roughly chopped with thick stems removed

• Fine sea salt and freshly-cracked black pepper, to taste

• option to add curry

• option to add cauliflower