Vacation cooking

Whenever we travel, I like to cook for friends, but don't have my cookbooks with me and am in vacation mode, so just can't think of recipes. So...I'll add to this brain dump as we travel (we are in Maine now in the midst of a 3 week New England trip visiting friends and family!).

Today we made

• tomato soup (1/2 with cream, 1/2 without) and grilled cheese sandwiches (in Portland, ME for Jen and Mike)

Other ideas for future visits with friends:

• Lentil soup
• Butternut squash soup
• Split pea soup
• Green pea soup
• Pasta fagioli