katharina

I made a tremendously huge pot of vegetable soup this morning. I started by cooking a pork butt roast (beef works great, too). That should make a pretty good broth. When the meat is cooked, remove it from the pot and add:

carrots, green beans, corn, lima beans, great northern beans
(carrots were fresh, corn, green beans, limas were frozen, and
northerns were canned)
32 oz. chicken broth
diced tomatoes (small can)
crushed tomatoes (large can)

Replace the cut up meat to the pot along with:
herbs of your choice
sugar (just 'cause I like a little sweetness in soup, not necessary)

And a great big pot. :-) After veggies are cooked in
the broth... at least 30 minutes for those carrots, it's
finished. Things like this are always better when reheated.

FourBear

This sounds delicious! I think I would like to try making a spicy version of this.

mtatum4496

Nothing is quite as nice as the aroma of home made vegetable soup wafting through the house. Of course, being from the south, that means there must also be a pone of cornbread in the oven as well.

I keep a container in the freezer and toss in leftover corn, beans, peas, etc to save for soup. Usually, I also keep Mckenzie's frozen vegetable gumbo to add in as well. When the mood strikes, out comes the leftovers, the frozen gumbo. They join with tomatoes and usually vegetable boullion. Sometimes I brown ground sirloin and toss in, other times leftover shredded chicken makes it in there, and sometimes no meat at all, just vegetables with seasonings. the great thing about vegetable soup is you can make so many variations and still come out with a great pot full.

katharina

Funny you should say this! I have a bottle of Emeril's hot sauce and when I was eating the soup, I wondered how they'd match up and didn't use any in my bowl. That may be interesting. I was never a hot sauce person in the past, but I made jambalaya recently and put a lot of the hot sauce in my portion and really enjoyed it. Of course that may not be the kind of "spicy" you meant.

katharina

Oh, I absolutely agree! I have my store list ready for tomorrow and I'll be buying the ingredients to make my chicken/corn/noodle soup next. That's a very good idea you mentioned about saving your leftover veggies!

And yes, it's so versatile... if someone doesn't like a certain veggie, just don't put it in there.