Melissa's Garden Vegetable Soup with Edamame and Fresh Herb Dumplings

My wife picks up great soups every week from a woman, Melissa, who specializes in great soups. They're usually vegan and when they're occasionally not, she lets us know so we don't purchase those few varieties. This week she had a gazpacho soup as well as a vegetable soup with edamame and fresh herb dumplings - as always, they were both good.

I served the vegetable soup along with some corn-off-the-cob that I mixed in Earth Balance margarine, salt, and fresh lemon juice into. I also had some bread with olive tapenade.