Photo: haoliang | Getty Images 10 minutes prep; 30 minutes cooking and finishing recipe. Serves 4 to 6 as a main dish, 8 as a first course. Soup holds in the refrigerator up to 4 days. A “virtual” cream soup, this is a creamy soup made without the cream. We don’t want to How to Eat Supper by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift oversell, but this soup comes together in a blink and proves simple really can fly. The spicing opportunities in this recipe are limitless.