Soup’s on (and on and on)

Hot concoctions hit the spot on cold days, and Bob Evans wants to ensure you get your fill

As comfort foods go, soup usually tops the list when winter winds whistle outside the windows and snow piles up at the door.

Record cold temperatures this month make January a natural for National Soup Month.

But Bob Evans is celebrating through February by giving a limited number of folks the opportunity to purchase an Endless Soup Pass good throughout the second month of the year. It’s available for $15 and can be purchased only online — at BobEvans.com/souppass — through Jan. 31.

The offer is valid for dinein only. But go often and eat as much as you want.

Tucking in to the chain’s sumptuous Tomato Basil or its Chicken & Noodles soups warms one from tummy to toes. Its Cheddar Baked Potato and Hearty Beef Vegetable soups are meals in themselves. The Endless Soup Pass is also good for the chain’s Original Recipe

Chile, a major contender that’s packed with Bob Evans sausage, fire roasted tomatoes, kidney beans, onions, hot sauce and spices.

On days when you just can’t pry yourself from the house, put on a pot of soup to cook so it fills your living space with its wonderful scents. It’s usually even better the next day.

After building a soup-and-salad dinner around an asparagus soup at Molinari’s in Mentor, I learned it was the creation of new chef Franklin T. Champagne, who shares it with readers today. Trained in Maryland and living in Cleveland’s Collinwood neighborhood, Champagne has been with Molinari’s for two months.

The offer is valid for dine-in only.

COURTESY OF BOB EVANS The Chicken & Noodles Soup at Bob Evans is one of the choices you can indulge in with the chain’s Endless Soup Pass.

COURTESY OF BOB EVANS Maybe Bob Evans Original Recipe Chili is the answer to a really chilly day.