Hey all you tall white hats,

Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a simple, old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?

It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to her cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and just too many herbs and spices to suit my taste.

Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.

Thanks,
Jon

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> Hey all you tall white hats,
>
> Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a simple, old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?
>
> It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to her cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and just too many herbs and spices to suit my taste.
>
> Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon


Very basic soup: Get some beef or vegetable bouillon cubes. To a quart
of water, add a bouillon cube or two (there are two sizes, use 1 big one
or 2 small ones, you can add more later), an 8 oz can of tomato sauce,
and some chopped vegetables (onions, carrots, celery, maybe some
cabbage.) Season with a bay leaf and some black pepper. You can also
add a handful of frozen corn or beans or whatever.

Simmer until the vegetables are tender and it smells like soup.

It will taste better the next day.

You might want to add some barley or white rice or noodles. Or even
just a teaspoon of cornstarch stirred into a little bit of water.

Bouillon has a *lot* of salt in it, so you probably won't need to add
any salt. Dried herbs you might want to try adding one or two in small
doses: thyme, basil, savory, lemon peel.

Hope this helps,
Bob

On Thursday, December 5, 2013 11:41:33 AM UTC-8, wrote:
> Hey all you tall white hats,
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>
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> Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a simple, old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?
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> It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to her cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and just too many herbs and spices to suit my taste.
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>
>
> Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon

uh....Google maybe?

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> Hey all you tall white hats,
>
> Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a simple,
> old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?
>
> It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to her
> cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and just too
> many herbs and spices to suit my taste.
>
> Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

I make this all the time but have no actual recipe. I usually just use up
whatever vegetables I have, perhaps adding a few things from the salad bar.
The last batch was two small red potatoes, one onion, two ribs of celery,
two carrots, one zucchini, a handful of cooked peas, leftover corn and green
beans and a handful of spinach.

Chop all of the larger vegetables and add to the pot along with some V8
juice. Season with a bay leaf or two (depending on how much soup you are
making), salt, pepper, oregano and parsley. I just use a little oregano and
a lot of parsley. I used fresh for this pot. Heat through until the
vegetables are cooked. If all of the vegetables are already cooked, this
won't take long. Otherwise 20 minutes to a half an hour. Then add the
spinach. Taste and adjust seasonings.

In the case of this soup, I felt it was too tomatoey, so I added a can of
vegetable broth. Then it was perfect!

I don't always use V8 juice. I might use tomato juice or even tomato sauce
and water. Really depends on what I have in the house when I make the soup.

If you find that the herbs are too overwhelming, simply add less to start
with. It's easy to taste and then add more.

On 12/5/2013 3:11 PM, zxcvbob wrote:
> wrote:
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>> Hey all you tall white hats,
>>
>> Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a
>> simple, old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?
>>
>> It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to
>> her cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and
>> just too many herbs and spices to suit my taste.
>>
>> Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
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>
> Very basic soup: Get some beef or vegetable bouillon cubes. To a quart
> of water, add a bouillon cube or two (there are two sizes, use 1 big one
> or 2 small ones, you can add more later), an 8 oz can of tomato sauce,
> and some chopped vegetables (onions, carrots, celery, maybe some
> cabbage.) Season with a bay leaf and some black pepper. You can also
> add a handful of frozen corn or beans or whatever.
>
> Simmer until the vegetables are tender and it smells like soup.
>
I'd have to say canned or boxed broth would be a better recommendation
than salty bouillon cubes.

> It will taste better the next day.
>
Agreed... at least it will if the soup tasted good in the first place.

> Hope this helps,
> Bob

Ditto.

Jill

On Thursday, December 5, 2013 4:28:50 PM UTC-6, Julie Bove wrote:
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> > Hey all you tall white hats,
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> > Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a simple,
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> > old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?
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> > It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to her
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> > cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and just too
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> > many herbs and spices to suit my taste.
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> > Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.
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> > Thanks,
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> > Jon
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> I make this all the time but have no actual recipe. I usually just use up
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> whatever vegetables I have, perhaps adding a few things from the salad bar.

ROFL @ making soup from salad bar shit....

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> The last batch was two small red potatoes, one onion, two ribs of celery,
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> two carrots, one zucchini, a handful of cooked peas, leftover corn and green
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> beans and a handful of spinach.

Wow! What a bonanza that must have been!

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> Hey all you tall white hats,
>
> Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a
> simple, old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?
>
> It's just me since the wife passed away and I didn't pay attention to
> her cooking. I've tried a couple of recipes from magazines, etc and
> just too many herbs and spices to suit my taste.
>
> Anyway, I surely do appreciate any assistance you can offer.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

I can't help you with the soup but I thought I'd mention I taught myself
how to cook well enough to survive on my cooking with _Joy of Cooking_.
You might want to look at a copy and if you like it buy one - even an old
used copy can be very useful - I still use my original (1960s?) copy - I
like it better than the newer one I also have.

--
"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon

On 12/5/13 2:41 PM, wrote:
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> Hey all you tall white hats,
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> Can somebody help a poor soul who has trouble boiling water with a simple, old-fashioned vegetable soup recipe?


Heat up some V8 juice and add black pepper and some oregano. Add thinly
sliced carrots, some cabbage and whatever bit of veggie you like and let
that simmer till the veggies are softened.
Voila! VERY easy tomato vegetable soup.

To get aroma taste and spicey, you add some ginger garlic paste, cumin seed, pepper powder, mint and coriander leaves, turmer powder into that. not too much all powders from 1/2 to 1 spoon. Either veg or non veg or both mixed soup whatever. Your soup aroma rise you appetite more and healthy dish too. This will cure cold, flu and even fever too.