A very simple vegetable soup, nothing fancy, just washing and chopping vegetables, stirring, and enjoying the aroma of a food that makes you hungry just preparing it.
Heat olive oil over medium heat in a large soup pot. Add onions, celery, and carrots. Saute until they are tender. Add bell pepper and garlic. Cook for 5 minutes.
Add broth, potatoes, and turnips. Bring to a boil, reduce heat. Cover partially and cook for 15 minutes or until potatoes are almost tender. Add green beans. Simmer for 15 minutes.
Add pasta, salt, and pepper. Continue to simmer for another 15 minutes. Turn off heat and allow to sit, covered for 1/2 hour.
Ladle into soup bowls and garnish with a sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley.
Source: The recipe for this soup came from my Mother who almost couldn't wait for her "kitchen" garden to be ready to cook. She didn't always have every ingredient that's listed, but if she did, everything went into the big old soup pot.
She'd make the best baked cornbread to go with this healthy and hearty soup. It was as good to us as it was for us. I have such nice memories of helping her in that big old kitchen where the kitchen table more often than not was also where I did my school homework. I wish I had that big table still, but I don't know where I'd put it in the kitchen we have today.
By Julia from Boca Raton, FL
Take bowl of pre-cooked endives, put in blender with a few scrapings of fresh ginger, squeeze in half an orange, add last drains of a bottle of milk, and blend. Put it all back in the bowl and heat in microwave.
Today I had to shop for vegetables for this soup because I am on a liquid/soft diet due to jaw surgery. So my goal has been to eat healthy. So I picked up all produce, came home and decided to start a potato soup.
I would like a good recipe for vegetable soup.
By Virginia M.
Start with V8 juice and vegetables of your choice. Simmer till flavors merge grill up some grilled cheese
Because of the soduim in canned soup, I can not open a can! So I made up this quick and easy vegetable soup. I am great at thinking I know what I am doing. Hope you like it!
When I was young, my mother made a vegetable soup using what she called a "soup bone". I do not know exactly what kind of a bone that was. Does anyone know, or have a recipe for a good old fashion vegetable soup? Thank you for answering.
By Marger
A soup bone is usually beef knuckle, shank or leg bones with some meat still on the bone. These are available in my supermarket meat case, but you need to ask for a knuckle bone.
I use my crockpot to make beef broth for soup. I have a 5 qt pot, which I fill with water, then the soup bones (1 knuckle, 3-5 shank or leg bones), 2 large carrots sliced in 1/2" rounds, 3 sticks of celery sliced in 1/2" slices, and 1 large onion coarsely chopped. l add 4-5 cloves of garlic, and salt and pepper to taste. Cook on low for 6-8 hours.
This can be done on the stove in a pot. Simmer for at least 4 hours. Remove the bones and add any meat still on them to the broth. Refrigerate the broth for several hours, and remove the fat which has hardened. Then add more vegetables to the broth. such as cubed potatoes, corn, peas, more carrots celery and onions,and beans. You can cook the veggies and broth on your stove top for about an hour on medium heat if using fresh veggies.
You can have the soup ready to eat in 15 minutes if you use a package of hash browns and a bag or 2 of frozen mixed vegetables. Bring to a boil, the simmer at medium for 10 minutes until veggies are cooked. Check seasoning, and add salt and pepper if needed. Enjoy. The secret to good homemade soup is the both. Hope this helps.
We use to use "soup bones" also years ago when we butchered beef, it was part of the package. I can't remember what part it was from but know it was the base of every vegetable soup my mom made.
Soup bones were large beef bones that were usually given free by the corner butcher. From this you made stock. I remember my mom sending me to the store for a soup bone. Some stores will have them in a tray and labeled as soup bones - though probably not free any longer.
You can also use a ham bone. After we would eat the ham off the bone, we would cook it down with vegetables, adding cabbage, green beans, carrots, onions, celery, and tomato sauce or tomato soup or canned tomatoes, or whatever we had on hand.
I always save my ham bone making green beans and potatoes. You can ask the butcher about soup bones. Boil with celery, whole onion, a couple of beef bouillon cubes and a couple of quarts of water, salt and pepper. Some butchers will leave a little meat on the bone. Simmer for an hour or more. Always strain through cotton cheese cloth, because it will leave a scum on top of broth. Taste and adjust the pepper and salt. Good cooked with all kinds of veg, potatoes, or noodles, beef barley soup. Also, good with a small can of diced tomatoes added to your soups. Endless possibilities when you make your own broth. Cheap and good.
Super easy, great-tasting soup, especially good in the fall and winter months.
What's for dinner? Fridge empty? Make easy soup from whatever. This is so simple. Put the ingredients in a pot and simmer for a while.
Take leftover rice and break it up with a fork. Add frozen peas and canned tomatoes cut in small pieces. Cover with water or chicken broth or vegetable broth. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes. Soup is ready, enjoy!
Mix together potatoes, celery, onion, water, and chicken bouillon cube. Add salt and pepper to personal tastes. Heat in large covered pan on the stove for 15-20 minutes.
I know this is easy, but I am a first timer and need vegetable soup recipes. Thanks.
By Lavoris McGhee from Little Rock, AR
I make vegetable-beef soup in my crockpot.
If you don't want the meat in it, just leave it out and add a few more vegetables.
Vegetable Beef Soup
1 lb. stew meat
1 14&frac;-ounce can tomatoes
2 carrots, sliced
2 stalks celery, sliced
2 medium onions, diced
2 medium potatoes, diced
3 cups water
&frac; teaspoon coarse black pepper
3 beef bouillon cubes
1 10-ounce package frozen mixed vegetables
Put all ingredients in crockpot. Cover and cook on low for 8 to 12 hours
Clean the Refrigerator Soup
We were raised poor & had to make do with what we had, I take all of my leftovers for the week and make what I call, "Clean the Refrigerator Soup". I always make my own vegetable, and Chicken soup each and every Friday. We never knew how it would be, but the refrigerator got clean on Friday of all its leftovers!
Because of this, I learned to take leftovers of any and turn them into a wonderful, filling and delicious soup. Taste as you go. I use ham and bacon with beef and chicken. beef dish makes a wonderful soup.I add a cup of diced onions & a can of tomatoes or a cup of catsup & 1/2 cup celery. I cook it in a slow cooker the day before I serve it, then when I get up the next morning I cook it on low heat till 12 noon, serve with saltines or corn bread, good luck.
