Garden Vegetable Soup
Here it is already November 2. Hard to tell from being outdoors today! It is sun-shiny and the temperature is a wonderful 71 degrees (F) with only a very slight breeze. Perfect, right? But for November it is a gift from heaven! Elvis posing on our walk today. Most of my garden is in and stored, but I still have brussel sprouts and parsnips to harvest. I sampled a brussel sprout as I walked past the garden doing yard work yesterday. It tasted like a baby cabbage! I'll give them a little longer as they are still quite small. Today I did want to make a vegetable soup, so here is what I came up with. Anything that I did NOT grow myself, I will mark with an *. All vegetables were chopped. In a large Dutch Oven, saute: 2 Tbsp olive oil* 1 small onion 1/2 C celery 2 small carrots 2 medium potatoes 2 cloves minced garlic* then add liquids: 32 oz stock* (I used beef, but it was organic) 3 Cups oven-roasted and pureed tomatoes (These were