Soup Will Heal You

There's what's on those blue recipe sheets.  

Then there's real recipes...here's a couple for you.

Recipe: White Bean Soup - Makes 3-4 Servings

Ingredients:

2 cups chicken stock

1 cup water

1/2 cup chicken

1 T olive oil

1 stalk celery diced

1/2 cup carrots diced

1 potato chopped

3/4 cup white beans

1/4 onion

1 T salt

a few grinds of pepper

1 t garlic powder

1 T parsley

Saute the celery, carrots, onion in olive oil til translucent (also the beans)

Add chicken stock and water

Add all the rest

Cook a long time - over an hour so the beans will be done.

Pull the potatoes out and mash them then return to soup.

Recipe: Stone Soup - Makes 15-20 servings

Ingredients:

1 1/2 gallon water

1 whole chicken

1 diced onions, sauteed in oil until translucent

5 stalks celery diced

2 carrots diced

1 pound potatoes peeled and diced

½ turnip diced

½ cups tomato slurry

½ cup black beans

½ cup kidney beans

½ cup white beans

4 Tablespoons salt (or even more)

3 tablespoons cornstarch - for thickening

Boil that whole chicken til the leg gets loose and comes off

Pull the whole chicken out of the pot - let it cool off a bit and pull all the meat off

Put the meat back in

Put all the vegetables in

Keep boiling for at least a half hour

Make slurry with the cornstarch and water and throw in to thicken

Recipe: Mulligatawny Soup

Ingredients:

1 onion- diced

5 cloves garlic- minced

1 big nob of ginger - minced

3 small carrots - chopped

3 stalks celery - chopped

3 Tablespoons oil

2 Tablespoons curry powder

1 Tablespoon garam masala

2 Tablespoons salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

¼ cup dried lentils

½ cup uncooked rice

3 cans coconut milk

1 can garbanzo beans

4 cups water

Condiments:

Chopped apple

Chopped celery

Chopped scallion

Peanuts

Chicken on a stick

Plain Yogurt

Put the oil in a big pot

Throw in onions and cook til translucent

Add garlic, ginger, carrots, celery and cook another 5 minutes

Add remaining ingredients and cook til the rice and lentils are soft - 30-45 minutes

Serve with condiments