(Summer) Soup & Salad

Suggested listening while reading this post (Orgone's CRABBY Ali)

We wanted the start of our Labor Day barbecue (http://sweettheresahomecooking.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-close-out-cook-out.html) to taste like Summer.  A crab & corn soup and a salad with arugula, dried blueberries, yellow cherry tomatoes and crumbled goat cheese topped with a mint & parsley vinaigrette definitely did the trick. 

The salad and dressing comes together in minutes (although I like to make the vinaigrette a few hours -- if not a day -- ahead, since it only tastes better with a bit of time), and the soup cooks low & slow for hours making it a great weekend dish.