Beautiful Sou-oop
Beautiful Sou-oop
Soup of the evening Beautiful Sou-oop
Beautiful, Beautiful Soup.
Beautiful Soup, Who cares for fish,
Game or any other dish?
Who would not give all else for two
Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?
(from Alice in Wonderland)
Last night I cooked a lovely turkey vegetable soup. I cooked two soups actually, one for my husband and myself and one for baby. It turned out wonderfully as my soups almost always do turn out.
Here is how I make vegetable soup, I rarely measure anything so I have no measurements here. I also make it with different veggie combinations so I don't really have an ingredients list either! I usually use up whatever veggies are needing used up from the fridge and then add in whatever sounds good. Helpful I know!
I start with onion and garlic, sauteing them in a little olive oil. Last night I also chopped up a green pepper and yellow pepper and had them in with the onion and garlic as well. Then I took thawed ground turkey on the turkey I sprinkled on oregano, basil, parsley, black pepper and added a bay leaf and cooked it til it was browned. Then I added water and beef base. Then I added potatoes, scrubbed well and diced, carrots scrubbed well and chopped, celery also scrubbed and chopped and a yellow squash and zucchini squash. Then I added dark red kidney beans and garbanzo beans. Then I added frozen peas and corn. Then I seasoned it again with more oregano, parsley and basil. Then I added an 8 oz can of tomato sauce(minus about 1 tablespoon that went into baby's soup) Then I covered it and let it cook till the veggies were all cooked to a nice tenderness but not falling apart and it was beautiful beautiful soup!
Other things I've added in the past: okra, diced tomatoes(both canned and fresh), pinto beans, butter beans, great northern beans, green beans and more that I can't recall at the moment.
For the soup for baby this is what I did, I put a small handful each of onion, green and yellow pepper and sauteed that in about a teaspoon of olive oil then added a good pinch of ground turkey. I seasoned his turkey with a pinch of garlic powder, a shake of dried parsley and one grind of black pepper. When the turkey was browned I added just enough water to cover everything then put in about a teaspoon of beef base then I added a small handful of carrots, celery, potato, yellow squash and zucchini, a good spoonful of kidney beans and garbanzo beans and probably 1/4 cup of peas and corn and made sure there was enough broth to mostly cover everything still. Then I added a tablespoon of canned tomato sauce. Then I put the lid on and cooked it until the veggies were nice and tender. Then I let it cool a bit and put veggies with enough broth to blend it into the food processor until it was a good consistency for baby.
I made some nice beer bread to go with it
3 cups of flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
12 oz beer
Mix dry ingredients then add beer and stir to combine and bake at 375 degrees till done, I put mine in an 8 in round pan and it baked to perfection in 25 minutes. The recipes I saw said to put it in a loaf pan and bake it for an hour, the 8 inch pan has less depth than a loaf pan so that's why it took so much less time I think. Then I brushed melted butter over the top of the loaf and cut into slices, which I also brushed butter on. Yay butter!
It was a very hearty and satisfying dinner which parents and baby both enjoyed greatly!
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