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I’m moving to Seattle in a few weeks, so I figured it was about time to clean out the ol’ fridge and pantry. According to cooking God Alton Brown, soup is a pretty good way to accomplish this, so tonight, for the first time in my life, I made vegetable soup.
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[[Image:14soup01.jpg|thumb|Vegetable Soup]]
  
We start with the fresh  weeks old  veggies.
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== Ingredients ==
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* 1 large [[carrot]]
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* 4 [[green bean|French beans]]
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* ¼ [[cabbage]]
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* 1 stalk [[celery]]
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* 1 [[leek]]
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* 1 medium [[onion]]
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* 1 [[bay leaf]]
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* 5 [[pepper]]corns
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* 2 [[garlic]] cloves
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* 1 tbsp of [[oil]]
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* 1½ tsp [[worcestershire sauce]]
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* 1½ tsp of [[salt]]
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* 8 cups of [[water]]
  
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== Directions ==
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# Wash all the vegetables thoroughly.
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# Peel and cut the [[carrot]] and [[green bean|French beans]]. Preserve [[carrot]] peels.
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# Chop [[onion]] and [[cabbage]] into 1 cm. cubes.
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# Slice the [[garlic]].
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# Boil [[carrot]] and [[green bean|French beans]] in extra [[water]] for 10 minutes. Strain and keep aside.
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# In a soup pot, heat [[oil]].
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# Add the chopped [[onion]], [[garlic]], [[bay leaf]], peppercorns, [[leek]], chopped [[celery]] and [[carrot]] peels and fry for three minutes.
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# Add [[water]] and bring to a boil. Cook uncovered on medium flame for 10 minutes.
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# Strain the stock into a fresh pot.
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# Add [[cabbage]], boiled [[carrot]] and [[green bean|French beans]]. Stir the mixture.  
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# Add [[salt]] and [[Worcestershire sauce]].
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# Bring to a boil and serve hot.
  
I start prepping my [[mirepoix]] (soup base of onions, carrots and celery) by [[Julienne|julienning]] my veggies. These will be finely chopped and sweated in a pot with olive oil. Off to the side, are my diced leeks.
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[[Category:Singaporean Soups]]
 
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[[Category:Healthy Soups]]
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[[Category:Vegetarian Recipes]]
 
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[[Category:Carrot Recipes]]
Next, I roughly slice up some leftover zucchini and porcini mushrooms. In the back of the cutting board, I have my secret ingredients… vegetable stock, butter and a [[Bouquet Garni]] of oregano. I didn’t have any butchers twine on hand (which is what you’re supposed to use for this), so I cut up an onion bag and stapled it shut. Yeah, just call me McGyver.
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[[Category:Green bean Recipes]]
 
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[[Category:Cabbage Recipes]]
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Good Eats fans should know what this thing is.
 
 
 
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It’s wine time. I put in about 2 cups of white wine to brighten up the flavor a bit.
 
 
 
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At this point, I got tired of taking pictures, so you’ll have to imagine this next part…
 
The following was added:
 
- 4 cups of veggie stock
 
- 5 cups of water
 
- The rest of the fresh veggies (mushrooms and zucchini)
 
- Half a bag of frozen green beans
 
- A box of Barilla shell pasta
 
- A can of great northern beans
 
 
 
I set the thing to simmer, and went out to the driving range for an hour, since it was in the upper 60s in Central Virginia today.
 
 
 
After getting back, I finished it off with about a half a stick of butter (for flavor and richness), salt (kosher of course) and pepper.
 
 
 
I also added a bit of shredded gruyere on the finished product, and ate by myself in my lonely little apartment, accompanied by a glass of 2001 Merlot and Norah Jones playing on winamp. So lonely
 
 
 
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The soup came out better than I expected.
 

Revision as of 05:59, 21 March 2011


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Vegetable Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash all the vegetables thoroughly.
  2. Peel and cut the carrot and French beans. Preserve carrot peels.
  3. Chop onion and cabbage into 1 cm. cubes.
  4. Slice the garlic.
  5. Boil carrot and French beans in extra water for 10 minutes. Strain and keep aside.
  6. In a soup pot, heat oil.
  7. Add the chopped onion, garlic, bay leaf, peppercorns, leek, chopped celery and carrot peels and fry for three minutes.
  8. Add water and bring to a boil. Cook uncovered on medium flame for 10 minutes.
  9. Strain the stock into a fresh pot.
  10. Add cabbage, boiled carrot and French beans. Stir the mixture.
  11. Add salt and Worcestershire sauce.
  12. Bring to a boil and serve hot.