Leftover BBQ and Veggie Tray Soup

 Hello all!! It has been a while since my last post, but  I had a BBQ grillout with some friends on Sunday and had some leftovers. I was actually shocked at how delicious this turned out.....I expected it to just be a next day meal that was meh...but EVERYONE loved it!!! So I had to put it on here! 

This is going to be an inexact recipe but here goes

Leftover Veggie Tray included:

Broccoli

Snap Peas

Baby Carrots

Red Bell Peppers

Celery

I also had about 1/2 sweet onion and 1/2 purple onion leftover as well

I put all my veggies in a food processor and chopped until a fine mince

All together I had roughly 3 cups of minced veggies

Put those all in a large pot

Add

1 can each, cream of mushroom, cream of chicken and cream of celery soups

3 cans of water (I considered using  chicken broth but I thought it might end up too salty, perhaps milk might be a good addition too, but I stuck with water)

Mix well and allow to simmer 1 hour

Add an 8 oz brick of softened cream cheese, stir and melt

I also added 6 slices smokehouse cheddar and allowed that to melt

Simmer until the cheese is all melted and the veggies are very tender

I chopped up grilled 4 hot dogs I had and about 4 slices of bacon too and threw that in at the end and heated through.

You can add garlic, salt and pepper to taste too

Topped with some croutons made in my airfryer from leftover hot dog buns and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes!