Homemade Soup

[Fairygirl]

My boyfriend is making some homemade soup. Ingredients: distilled water, tomatoes, potatoes, celery, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, garlic powder, and Celtic sea salt. Yum!

[muleman]

No meat?

[Kane]

Where's the beef?!?

[Rusty Shackleford]

Originally Posted by Fairygirl

My boyfriend is making some homemade soup. Ingredients: distilled water, tomatoes, potatoes, celery, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, garlic powder, and Celtic sea salt. Yum!

That's sounds like a pretty good start! What kind of meat is going in it?

[luvs]

beef would be good.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Originally Posted by luvs

beef would be good.

Yeah, but I am thinking chicken, personally.

[squerly]

You know guy's, I think it vegitable soup...

[Rusty Shackleford]

Originally Posted by squerly

You know guy's, I think it vegitable soup...

What the heck is that? Explain yourself

[squerly]

Originally Posted by Rusty Shackleford

What the heck is that? Explain yourself

It was first thought of back before the dinosours and was the result of a hunter who spent his time getting high instead of hunting for 4-legged food. So he came home empty handed and very hungry.

[Fairygirl]

Yeah, my boyfriend is vegan, so there will be no meat in his soup. It is really good soup :)...but I'm sure one could add meat if desired

[Catavenger]

So he drives a Chevy Vega that doesn't mean he can't eat meat Even Prius drivers eat meat!

[muleman]

Well I can appreciate a good homemade soup with veggies right from the garden but I start with meat of some kind and go from there. Although I have started to like veggie stir fry a lot.

[pirate_girl]

Originally Posted by Fairygirl

Yeah, my boyfriend is vegan, so there will be no meat in his soup. It is really good soup :)...but I'm sure one could add meat if desired

How does the base taste?
Knorr vegetable bouillon cubes might lend a richer flavour.. but absolutely more sodium.

[luvs]

& regular or lo-sodium veggie or tomato juice adds body & depth. or pureed, then sieved very ripe tomato. as lollie said, he may try the knorr boullion. & u can make/buy veggie &/or mushroom stocks. if sodium were an issue, omit the salt & add after cooking. has he used tempeh, portobello chunks, or presses tofu~ added pasta he's precooked, then add to each bowl before ladling soup over it.
u'd be amazed @ the difference.

[EastTexFrank]

Come on guys , he's vegan. You know what that means:

"Vegan: Old English word for really bad hunter".

Seriously Fairygirl, if he can cook, hold on to him. That always was my philosophy with women and it helped me get my wife 33 years ago and I haven't let her go since.

[luvs]

i'd really like pork in this.

[Umberto]

Good, I was looking for a soup thread.

I made this for my church's soup kitchen today. Every Wed. we have soup, bread, and cookies for the homeless and folks that just want a bowl of soup. They also have a mail drop for people without addresses.

Today was my first soup making for this ministry. I made a minestrone added a swede and two turnips = 4 quarts beef broth, 4 potatoes, two cans tomatoes, 2 pounds burger, 4 carrots, 1 cup macaroni, 2 cans red beans, 2 cloves garlic, lots of chopped onions, salt, basil, marjoram, sage, savory, and parsley.

There was some leftover and had a bowl when I got home.

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[JEV]

That really looks tasty.

[Umberto]

Thank you. I have to say it was well received and now what to do to equal it for my next offering?

I was thinking goulas soup but not sure how the homeless would react to paprika?