Again I have been dishonest with you. I once vowed to post every time I made something. Well... That didn't happen. I have making mass amount of food, but haven't found to much time to blog about it. Sorry. I have made food at school, food to bring to school, food the bring to youth group, and food just cause I was bored.
Recently I have been trying my hand a cooking instead of just baking. I have gone soup crazy! I love soup! I could go on and on about how much I love soup. Soup is amazing! I have not meet one type of soup I did not like. I could eat soup for about every meal. To practice my cutting skills in my independent study I decided that I would make soup. You have to chop a lot of vegetable for soup, so it was great practice. And I just really wanted to make soup because I love it!!!!!!
I made two amazing soup last week. Tomato Basil and Minestrone Soup. They were both amazing with fantastic flavor. I personally love the Minestrone. I really don't like to eat vegetables. I have an awful sweet tooth and would eat a brownie over a salad any day. Soup is a great way for me to eat vegetable without forcing myself to. The Minestrone Soup is full of vegis, pasta, and heaven. There is spinach, tomatoes, squash, celery, and carrots. To add some body to the soup you put in pasta and potatoes. Warning this soup is very good but very filling. You will want to keep eating but you will get full. I changed the recipe a little from what I found on Allrecpies.com. I did not put in the Swiss Shard (mostly cause I don't know what that is :)). I also added more noodles than the recipe calls for so my soup thickened up and was so brothy, which personally I liked. Also the store in town didn't have orzo so I just used shells instead and those worked very well in it. And don't worry right after you put in the spinach it looks like seawead with a couple vegetable in it, but the spinach cooks down, a lot.
The Toamto Basil soup was also amazing. It was creamy and rich. The flavor is beyond this world. I did everything exactly like the recpie with that and it turned out perfect. Tomato soup is my favorite type of soup, so this soup ranks in the top 5 of best soups I have ever eaten (and as you can tell I love soup and have eaten alot of soup).
So here are the recpies, and I know it is almost the end of soup season. But please for your sake and mine try these soups!!!!
Minestrone Soup
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Spectrum Organic Extra
VirginOlive Oil
1 medium onion, diced
6 cloves garlic, chopped
3 medium carrots, diced
2 large celery stalks, diced
2 medium yellow squash, diced
5 cups Imagine Organic VegetableCooking Stock
1/2 pound potatoes, peeled and
diced
1/2 pound Swiss chard cut into
narrow strips
1 pound spinach leaves cut into
strips
1 cup orzo pasta
1 cup chunky chopped Italian plum tomatoes
2 bunches washed, julienned basis leaves
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons Hain Pure Foods
Iodized
Sea Salt or kosher salt
Black pepper to taste
Fresh Parmesan for serving
Directions:
Heat the Spectrum Organic Extra
Virgin Olive Oil in a heavy bottom soup pot.
Add in the onion and garlic and
saute for 5 minutes or until the onion is soft.
Stir in celery, carrots, squash
and saute for 5 minutes more.
Add in the Imagine Organic
Vegetable Cooking Stock, potatoes, chard, spinach, pasta and tomatoes, and
bring to a boil.
Lower heat and simmer for 10-12
minutes or until the potatoes are soft and the pasta has cooked.
Stir in the basil and Parmesan.
Season to taste.
Divide between 8 warm soup bowls
and grate some fresh Parmesan over each bowl.
Tomato Basil Soup
Ingredients
1 (11.5 ounce) can tomato-vegetable juice cocktail
1 (14.5 ounce) can chicken broth
20 fresh basil leaves, cut into thin strips
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup butter or margarine
Directions:
In a large saucepan, combine the tomatoes, vegetable juice, and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, and cook for 30 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir in the basil. At this point, you may puree the soup if you wish. Add the cream and butter; return to medium-low heat, and stir until butter is melted. Serve immediately. Serves 6
LET THEM EAT SOUP!!!!
Enjoy
Nancy
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