l not -l wrote in rec.food.cooking:

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> On 29-Oct-2016, jmcquown > wrote:
>
> > On 10/29/2016 10:54 AM, l not -l wrote:
> > > I can't stand the smell of beef vegetable soup, therefore would
> > > never eat
> > > it, much less make it. To me, it smells just like a trash can
> > > filled with
> > > old food scraps..
> >
> > Oh dear.
> >
> > I guess I don't need to ask if you ever make and enjoy a nice beef
> > stew with vegetables?
> >
> > Jill
> Actually, I do. I made some a week or so ago. To me, beef stew
> smells nothing like vegetable beef soup. My beef stew is just beef
> chunks, celery, carrot, potato and onion. Most veg/beef soup I have
> seen/smelled has other veg, corn and tomatoes come to mind. While I
> like each of the ingredients, alone and in other dishes, I apparently
> don't like the smell of them heated together in soup. Then again,
> I'm not a fan of most soups..

No problem with that. Meantime, I'm a little frustrated. I wanted to
make a beef soup but Don has my main crockpot in use with a bean and
ham soup for some friends who are on hard times. Ah well. They pick up
tomorrow and I can make a soup later once the crock is empty.

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