BUT I can whip up some awesome soup. It's not that difficult and ALWAYS impresses the heck out of everyone. The girls at my wife's office call me the 'soup daddy' and beg me to make stuff all the time.
It's good for you (you know what going in) and the taste blows away anything you can get out of a can.
Pick up a cookbook about soups, but an important bit of advice... don't scrimp or cheat on ingredients on anything you cook.