Cold Be-gone soup

Ingredients

• 1 onion or leek
• 2-6 cloves garlic
• 1/2-1cm ginger (optional)
• olive oil
• 1-3 carrots
• 1-3 sticks celery
• 1 bayleaf (optional)
• 1-3 cups vegies (eg mushroom, zucchini, broccoli, capsicum, corn, bok choy, spinach or whatever you like)
• salt
• pepper
• dried herbs
• 1/4 cup dry white wine (optional or use 2 tbs vinegar instead or nothing)
• 2-4 cups veg stock or water
• cooked noodles or rice (optional)
• firm tofu cu into small pieces (optional)
• seaweed, optional
• 1-2 chilli chopped (remove seeds unless you want it very hot- optional)