I am the soup goddess.
5.5 quarts of potatoes, carrots, celery, onions, green beans, mushrooms, zuccini, barley, sage, thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper, garlic, bay leaves, basil, and veggie broth.
It won't be ready for several hours yet, but it will, I trust be quite yummy. And it freezes and reheats quite well, so I will have things in my freezer to eat for when I don't feel like cooking. And! It's sitz and Vger safe!
Soup goddess. I wonder what my garb looks like.
It won't be ready for several hours yet, but it will, I trust be quite yummy. And it freezes and reheats quite well, so I will have things in my freezer to eat for when I don't feel like cooking. And! It's sitz and Vger safe!
Soup goddess. I wonder what my garb looks like.
Kind of like the Chiquita banana woman, but with veggies instead of fruit. And runny.
Ew.
6 large potatoes, skinned and cut into chunks. (I usually use baby redskin potatoes and quarter them, but they didn't look great in the store.)
1 Really Big Vidalia onion.
About a cup of dry pearled barley.
About a pound (pre-trimmed) of green beans.
One small bag of baby carrots, cut into halves or thirds, depending on their size.
One "tub" of mushrooms. (You know, the tubs they sell mushrooms in?) Destemmed, with caps quartered.
2 largish zuccini, unpeeled, quartered, then sliced down.
About 8 cloves of garlic, minced.
Start with the potatoes on the bottom (if you're cooking this in a crock pot) so that they will get more of the heat, since they are the hardest, etc. Then the barley. Then the carrots, then the celery, then the green beans. I then put on a layer of seasonings. I honestly have no clue what measurements they are. I kind of just make a heavyish layer at this point. Then, the rest of the vegetables, and the garlic, and then another layer of seasonings, though slightly lighter than the previous layer. Then, I doused the whole thing in cans of vegetable broth until the broth was at the top of the crock pot. (I think it took 7 standard-sized cans. It's very hard to find veggie broth in larger cans. If you can go to
Whole FoodsBread and Circus, they have a terrific veggie broth in a cardboard container, and I'd say it's about two of those. They also have a mushroom broth, and to make things a little heartier, I might recommend one box of veggie broth and one box of mushroom broth.) Oh yeah. Also, salt and pepper to taste. And, I put about half a cup of shoyu in, to help give it a little more depth.Uh, yeah.
Enjoy!