Weigh-In Wednesday: More Soup!

After the delicious (but stinky) success of my broccoli soup last week I decided to try my hand at another soup this week. It is definitely soup season around the Pacific Northwest!

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So I whipped this up last night. (Whipped is so not the right word, I don't whip up anything in the kitchen. A better phrase would be "I beat my head against the kitchen cabinets while making this," or "though I dropped half of my ingredients on the floor I still managed to make.") It was de-li-ci-ous. I am not even a tomato soup person and this one has quite a bit of tomato in it. Yum. Seriously, go get the ingredients and make this as soon as you can. It would be good with or without the cheese. I had avocado, but it had gone bad, so I threw black olives on the top instead. I also see now I didn't put sour cream on it, it was still amazing. And with brown rice and as much organic as I could find, it was super good for you too.

If you want my broccoli soup recipe, it was based loosely on the potato soup receipe I posted a couple weeks ago. Here's what I did:

*Approx 2lbs potatoes, cubed (I used part of a bag of potatoes o'brien we had in the freezer and chopped up a few organic potatoes I had in the fridge)

*Some frozen, chopped onions

*Broccoli (I used what had come in my veggie bin plus some. I don't know, a few cups worth? Do to taste for you), broken into little pieces

*Some celery, chopped up

*Some carrots, chopped up

*One box of chicken broth (I used low sodium, organic, 32oz-er)

*A cup of water

I threw all this into the crock pot. I cooked it on low for about 8 hours. I food-processor-ed it in my ninja blender . I added 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese. After it melted I threw in some turkey ham, and then put it in a bowl. Then I put a little bit of cheddar on it. Yum, delicious. But stinky. Very stinky.

Ta-da! I never thought I would be giving recipe advice. So, take it with a grain of salt! But do make that chicken soup over rice because it is amazing.

Comments

[Anette Grostad]

Sounds very good, it might end up being our dinner tomorrow. Thanks.
Also wanted to thank you for the Monster Chunk pattern. My 11 year old son loves his new Monster Chunk!