[RECIPE] Ben's Famous Vegetable Soup

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:52 am

This is so good that while both my wife and I are hardcore carnivores, we go through a batch of this per week.

INGREDIENTS
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2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium white onion, diced.
3-4 stalks celery, sliced into 1/4-1/2 inch pieces.
4-5 medium carrots, peeled and sliced into 1/4-1/2 inch pieces.
1 leek, halved lengthwise, sliced thin.
1 bulb fennel, diced.
4 cloves garlic, minced.
1 large (28 oz) can diced tomatoes, with juice.
2 32-oz boxes of reduced-sodium chicken broth.
1 tsp ground ginger.
1 tsp dried italian herbs.
2 cups potatoes, peeled, 1 inch dice.
16 oz package frozen cut green beans.
10 oz package (or whatever) frozen corn.
16 oz package frozen lima beans
1/2 cup chopped Italian (flat-leaf) parsley
1/2 tsp Tabasco
1/2 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp red wine vinegar
Salt/pepper

Of course, substitute/omit/modify to your tastes.

DIRECTIONS
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- Heat olive oil in large pot or stockpot.
- Saute onion/carrot/celery/leek/fennel in oil for five minutes with a little S/P until sweated out.
- Add garlic, stir for another minute or two.
- Add tomatoes (with juice), broth, ginger, and herbs.
- Bring to boil, cover, simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add potatoes and green beans.
- Bring to boil, cover, simmer for 15 more minutes.
- Add corn, lima beans, parsley, Tabasco, soy sauce, vinegar.
- Season with S&P to taste.
- Bring to boil, cover, simmer for five more minutes.

That's it. Lunches for two people for a week, and the whole thing costs about $10 and you'll drop weight like Paul drops Android tablets.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 1:30 pm

"Police arrested 'The Vegetable Bandit' for shoplifting outside of a supermarket where he was caught taking a leek."

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"It takes all kinds of vegetables / All kinds of vegetables/ To make a little bowl of Vegetable Soup."
- Vegetable Soup, PBS TV, 1975-1978.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 2:56 pm

Can we split this thread, Jonsey?

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:21 pm

pinback wrote:Can we split this thread, Jonsey?

Don't throw insults about me and don't make fun of me in your messages and I won't throw irrelevant responses back at your insults. Deal?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 8:22 am

ChainGangGuy · Post by **ChainGangGuy** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 9:32 am

With every spoonful simply bursting with Mother Nature's bountiful goodness, you'll live forever, Pinback!

Doesn't that sound nice?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Mar 30, 2015 11:34 am

I gotta make that this week. I am going to the store in a few hours. Why not make some soup?

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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 11, 2015 9:25 pm

Finally made this soup last night! I do like it lots, but I'm guessing that using water with a dollop of Better Than Bouillon probably didn't do it any favors, as I did think the broth could use a LOT more flavor. I'll probably make this again when I have a holiday carcass to make broth from.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 12:29 pm

Yeah, if the soup was lacking flavor, you did it wrong.

Bouvard · Post by **Bouvard** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 5:12 am

Guest wrote:Finally made this soup last night! I do like it lots, but I'm guessing that using water with a dollop of Better Than Bouillon probably didn't do it any favors paris car service, , as I did think the broth could use a LOT more flavor. I'll probably make this again when I have a holiday carcass to make broth from.

thank you for sharing, I will test it too!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:27 am

Hmm. That's not quite how I remember it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:44 pm

Someone's going to stick an unwashed Frenchman's Taxi-Driver-balls in your soup and get really, really sick. Zut Alors~~~!

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 10:02 pm

We actually had this soup in rotation for a week and everyone loved it! Except for the fact I had to add more tabasco because why would you eat soup without extra hot sauce?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:07 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I gotta make that this week. I am going to the store in a few hours. Why not make some soup?

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You didn't make this soup.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 11:03 am

You made this soup!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:13 pm

You think you know what danger is!?? But not!

I made the soup.

It was everything I hoped it would be and I will make more soon. I've got half the ingredients ready to go.

I used one potato. I might use two next time.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:52 pm

Where's the parsley?! THE PARSLEY!!?!?!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:16 pm

I didn't get the parsley. That is decoration, NOT food. Look it up. Pinback uses parsley. Sad!

There was another ingredient that I had never seen before, so I didn't use that either.

It was FLAVORFUL. Can we agree that the veggie soup, when not in a can from the store, is flavorful?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:39 pm

The ingredient you've never seen was "fennel". It's okay to have left it out!

But man. You need dat parsley son.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Jan 08, 2017 1:44 pm

I am making this today. With parsley, because as we all know...