Garbage Soup Recipe 475

Steps:

• n a large stock pot place beef, potatoes, tomatoes, onion, celery, broth and vegetables. Add enough water to cover ingredients, cover pot and cook over medium heat for 1 hour or until vegetables are soft and beef is cooked through. Season to taste with salt and pepper, rosemary, thyme and basil. Add bacon bits, stir and serve.

Steps:

• Mix all the ingredients in a large pot and simmer covered for 1 1/2 hours.
• You may now do one of two things: A- drain off the broth and reserve for future soup-making or use as any consomme, You may freeze it as well, adjust seasoning.
• B-Puree the veggies add back to the liquid and add any other ingredient you wish- leftover veggies, chicken, meat etc.
• This is truly a clean-the-fridge soup.

Steps:

• In a large pot, combine 6 cups stock with the carrots, celery root, parsnip and potatoes. The vegetables should be covered with stock, so add more as needed. Bring to a boil over high heat. Cover and reduce the heat to medium-low. Rapidly simmer until all the vegetables are fork tender, about 10 minutes. Reduce heat to low.
• While the vegetables are cooking, coarsely grate the pickles. You should have approximately 1 cup densely packed grated pickles. Melt the butter in a small frying pan over medium heat until it starts to brown. Stir in the garlic and bay leaves and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add the grated pickles and reduce the heat to medium-low. Cover and cook, stirring once, until the pickles become softer, 8 to 12 minutes.
• Add the pickle mixture to the pot with the vegetables, along with 1 cup of the pickle brine. Taste, then season with salt and pepper. The soup should already be salty from the broth, pickles and their brine, so add salt carefully. Add up to 1/2 cup more brine if you want a more sour taste. Remove and discard the bay leaves.
• If using sour cream, temper the cream so it doesn't curdle: In a cup, mix the sour cream with 1 to 2 tablespoons of cold water, stirring well after each addition, then repeat with 1 to 2 tablespoons of the soup. Add the tempered cream to the pot. Bring to a simmer and heat through, about 5 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings.
• To serve, ladle the soup into bowls. Top with chopped dill and black pepper.

Steps:

• Brown Beef in hot oil in pan.
• To this add beef Broth with the Knorr soup mix, barley that has been soaked for a few hours in water.
• Add canned tomatoes and V-8 juice to suit your taste.
• Add vegetables longest cooking first such as the lima beans, carrots then broccoli, zucchini and squash.
• Add pasta last. It will swell and get over cooked if you cook too long. I usually turn the soup off and add the pasta, stir and let set about ½ hour. Or you can cook the pasta of choice separate and add to individual soup bowls as you serve it. You can adjust to your personal taste by adjusting V-8, beef broth and water.