Vegetable Soup.

I have to produce one for an event tomorrow. I hate vegetable broths, which is why I have NEVER seen soup as a viable Friday in Lent option. However, duty calls, and I have to think of something edible. I am thinking of building a vegetable stock of standard aromatics with leaks, then using that to make a mushroom/potato bisque, and serving it with rustic French bread croutons and thyme-infused EVOO and drizzled with creme fraiche.