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Garden Master
I have been interested in soup recipes the last few years and really did a good job of keeping up with extra tomatoes for lunch during the late summer and fall. Fresh tomatoes for soup might not have been something I was thinking of until fairly recently. So much better than the ones I have to keep on the counter to ripen.
There is pasta sauce in the freezer but I had a couple of cans of chopped tomatoes that went in some sweetcorn and all those dry beans I grew in 2015, not 2016! I think that I can do that just about one more time before I will begin to deplete one or another variety of bean seed on the shelf. It's nice to have a mix of beans and just do the soak overnight, change water, cook, pour off extra water, add broth routine . The corn and tomatoes can go in about a 1:1:1 ratio with the beans and take a short while to cook. It all gets better with the addition of some nice seasonings. What would we call something like this? Maybe it is just a simple soup but I wouldn't have to add meat or pasta to it if I called it slumgullion, would I ?
Here's almost an actual recipe! I really like this and have made it a couple of times - had no idea that carrot and ginger flavor would go together so nicely! I think I got the idea from a Food Network recipe, I know I looked at that one before my own liberal tendencies took over and ♪ ♫ I Did It Myyy Way!
olive oil
onions and celery, chopped
ginger, grated
garlic, grated
salt and pepper
2 or 3 cups carrots, chopped
water
chicken broth
1 cup Greek yogurt
sour cream
The oil goes in a skillet and the onions, celery and ginger are sautéed together. The carrots are cooked separately in the water. Most of that is poured off and the chicken stock is added along with the sautéed veggies. It all goes in a blender and is poured back in the pan with the yogurt. The soup is heated thoroughly and I had the sour cream for the last pot and added that before serving. Really tasty!
So, simple and a good use for the carrots that have now migrated out of the cooler that I was moving in and out from the utility room to the deck, depending on outdoor temperatures. Yeah, we are now down to them taking up on crisper drawer in the fridge .
Storage veggies? How have you been using them?
Steve
There is pasta sauce in the freezer but I had a couple of cans of chopped tomatoes that went in some sweetcorn and all those dry beans I grew in 2015, not 2016! I think that I can do that just about one more time before I will begin to deplete one or another variety of bean seed on the shelf. It's nice to have a mix of beans and just do the soak overnight, change water, cook, pour off extra water, add broth routine . The corn and tomatoes can go in about a 1:1:1 ratio with the beans and take a short while to cook. It all gets better with the addition of some nice seasonings. What would we call something like this? Maybe it is just a simple soup but I wouldn't have to add meat or pasta to it if I called it slumgullion, would I ?
Here's almost an actual recipe! I really like this and have made it a couple of times - had no idea that carrot and ginger flavor would go together so nicely! I think I got the idea from a Food Network recipe, I know I looked at that one before my own liberal tendencies took over and ♪ ♫ I Did It Myyy Way!
olive oil
onions and celery, chopped
ginger, grated
garlic, grated
salt and pepper
2 or 3 cups carrots, chopped
water
chicken broth
1 cup Greek yogurt
sour cream
The oil goes in a skillet and the onions, celery and ginger are sautéed together. The carrots are cooked separately in the water. Most of that is poured off and the chicken stock is added along with the sautéed veggies. It all goes in a blender and is poured back in the pan with the yogurt. The soup is heated thoroughly and I had the sour cream for the last pot and added that before serving. Really tasty!
So, simple and a good use for the carrots that have now migrated out of the cooler that I was moving in and out from the utility room to the deck, depending on outdoor temperatures. Yeah, we are now down to them taking up on crisper drawer in the fridge .
Storage veggies? How have you been using them?
Steve