Autumn Soup
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Autumn Soup
With a 3 day cold snap here in the northeastern US in full swing today, I went to the market last night to get the ingredients for one of my favorite winter comfort foods. It's a recipe my daughter (23) brought home from high school Cooking 101 when she was a sophomore. Quick, easy and very satisfying.
Autumn Soup
Ingredients
½ lb Ground Beef
½ cup Chopped Onions
¾ cup Chopped Celery
¾ cup Potatoes cut up into cubes (use 1 whole potato)
3 Whole Fresh Tomatoes (stems removed)
1 tsp Salt
¼ tsp Pepper
½ Bay Leaf (crumbled)
Pinch of Basil
2 cups Hot Water
Directions
1. Brown ground beef slowly in a heavy kettle
2. Add onions and cook 5 minutes more
3. Add remaining ingredients (except tomatoes)
4. Mix thoroughly, loosening crustiness from the bottom of the kettle
5. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 20 minutes
6. Add tomatoes and, if necessary, more water
7. Simmer 10 minutes longer
Yield 2 servings
Autumn Soup
Ingredients
½ lb Ground Beef
½ cup Chopped Onions
¾ cup Chopped Celery
¾ cup Potatoes cut up into cubes (use 1 whole potato)
3 Whole Fresh Tomatoes (stems removed)
1 tsp Salt
¼ tsp Pepper
½ Bay Leaf (crumbled)
Pinch of Basil
2 cups Hot Water
Directions
1. Brown ground beef slowly in a heavy kettle
2. Add onions and cook 5 minutes more
3. Add remaining ingredients (except tomatoes)
4. Mix thoroughly, loosening crustiness from the bottom of the kettle
5. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer 20 minutes
6. Add tomatoes and, if necessary, more water
7. Simmer 10 minutes longer
Yield 2 servings
Last edited by HansV on 30 Jan 2010, 02:31, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Atumn Soup
I have a pound of ground beef in the fridge waiting for me to do something with it. This sounds yummy so guess what will be for lunch tomorrow.Doc Watson wrote:With a 3 day cold snap here in the northeastern US in full swing today, I went to the market last night to get the ingredients for one of my favorite winter comfort foods. It's a recipe my daughter (23) brought home from high school Cooking 101 when she was a sophomore. Quick, easy and very satisfying.
?? 3 Whole Fresh Tomatoes (stems removed)
?? ½ Bay Leaf (crumbled)
I have two questions: 1. I'm guessing I can substitute a quart of tomato pieces with the juice - for the fresh tomatoes? 2. My mom always said I should remove Bay Leaf because it wasn't good to eat it, only use it for flavoring. I can assume it has never caused you any problems?
Thanks for your thoughts and for the recipe!
Skitterbug
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Re: Atumn Soup
I too have always used bay leaves in stews/roasts/soups, but always removed them prior to eating. I remember roasting some black bear when we lived in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania and leaving it in....it was sooooo awful~!~!~! Perhaps the other seasonings in this recipe counteract it? It does sound good though.Skitterbug wrote: My mom always said I should remove Bay Leaf because it wasn't good to eat it, only use it for flavoring. I can assume it has never caused you any problems?
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Re: Atumn Soup
So was that a dish you couldn't leave or one you couldn't bear?Hey Jude wrote: I remember roasting some black bear when we lived in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania and leaving it in....it was sooooo awful~!~!~
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Re: Autumn Soup
Hehe.Hey Jude wrote:one that I couldn't bear to leave
If you got a boy Leif in your soup, would you discard it?
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Re: Atumn Soup
Your mom was right; one shouldn't rest on one's laurels...Skitterbug wrote:2. My mom always said I should remove Bay Leaf because it wasn't good to eat it, only use it for flavoring.
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Re: Atumn Soup
or hardysArgus wrote:Your mom was right; one shouldn't rest on one's laurels...Skitterbug wrote:2. My mom always said I should remove Bay Leaf because it wasn't good to eat it, only use it for flavoring.
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Re: Atumn Soup
But you can leave the Olivers in, I think.
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Re: Atumn Soup
It's better to rest on your laurels than to have wreaths rest on you.Argus wrote:Your mom was right; one shouldn't rest on one's laurels...Skitterbug wrote:2. My mom always said I should remove Bay Leaf because it wasn't good to eat it, only use it for flavoring.
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Re: Autumn Soup
I leave bay leafs in my dishes because I have a bay leaf tree and only use fresh leafs. I also have a pepper tree and us those leaves in cooking.Doc Watson wrote: ½ Bay Leaf (crumbled)
Just thought that I'd turn over a few leaves in this thread
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Re: Atumn Soup
I don't know how this thread developed from this simple recipe, but that's one of the joys of "our" Lounge. Friendship and comradery !!Skitterbug wrote:I have a pound of ground beef in the fridge waiting for me to do something with it. This sounds yummy so guess what will be for lunch tomorrow.Doc Watson wrote:With a 3 day cold snap here in the northeastern US in full swing today, I went to the market last night to get the ingredients for one of my favorite winter comfort foods. It's a recipe my daughter (23) brought home from high school Cooking 101 when she was a sophomore. Quick, easy and very satisfying.
?? 3 Whole Fresh Tomatoes (stems removed)
?? ½ Bay Leaf (crumbled)
I have two questions: 1. I'm guessing I can substitute a quart of tomato pieces with the juice - for the fresh tomatoes? 2. My mom always said I should remove Bay Leaf because it wasn't good to eat it, only use it for flavoring. I can assume it has never caused you any problems?
Thanks for your thoughts and for the recipe!
To answer Skitter's questions, this time of year I would say canned are a far better choice than the cardboard tomatoes in the produce sections. With the Bay leaves, it's a personal choice. I leave them in, but I don't eat them. If you don't want to be bothered sorting them out, adding the whole leaf is a good alternative and is easily removed at the end. You might want to add a couple whole leaves to account for not breaking them up or, if you have access to a tree, fresh leaves are the best.
Sooooo... how was lunch today ???
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Re: Atumn Soup
Oh noblest of apothecaries if I might be so bold as to enquire of you the exact dimensions of your Laurus NobilisDoc Watson wrote:
I don't know how this thread developed from this simple recipe, but that's one of the joys of "our" Lounge. Friendship and comradery !!
You might want to add a couple whole leaves to account for not breaking them up or, if you have access to a tree, fresh leaves are the best.
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Re: Atumn Soup
The thread became unwound while you weren't looking!Doc Watson wrote: I don't know how this thread developed from this simple recipe, but that's one of the joys of "our" Lounge. Friendship and comradery !!
To answer Skitter's questions, this time of year I would say canned are a far better choice than the cardboard tomatoes in the produce sections. With the Bay leaves, it's a personal choice. I leave them in, but I don't eat them. If you don't want to be bothered sorting them out, adding the whole leaf is a good alternative and is easily removed at the end. You might want to add a couple whole leaves to account for not breaking them up or, if you have access to a tree, fresh leaves are the best.
Sooooo... how was lunch today ???
Back to the topic - this is a quick fix recipe and our lunch was delicious and
I used canned tomatoes <our own> and one bay leaf, kept whole - not crumbled. I think I'll add more than one the next time I prepare this recipe to get a bit more "bay leaf" flavor.
Now what sounds good for dinner?
Skitterbug
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Re: Atumn Soup
That's a rather personal question, don't you think ??Hey Jude wrote:Oh noblest of apothecaries if I might be so bold as to enquire of you the exact dimensions of your Laurus NobilisDoc Watson wrote:
I don't know how this thread developed from this simple recipe, but that's one of the joys of "our" Lounge. Friendship and comradery !!
You might want to add a couple whole leaves to account for not breaking them up or, if you have access to a tree, fresh leaves are the best.
But amongst Lounge friends, we make allowances. I usually add 2 dried leaves or 1 fresh leif... I mean leaf.
If life gives you melons,
You may be dyslexic.
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Re: Atumn Soup
Well, at least we caught the loose end and pulled it back together.Skitterbug wrote:The thread became unwound while you weren't looking!Doc Watson wrote: I don't know how this thread developed from this simple recipe, but that's one of the joys of "our" Lounge. Friendship and comradery !!
To answer Skitter's questions, this time of year I would say canned are a far better choice than the cardboard tomatoes in the produce sections. With the Bay leaves, it's a personal choice. I leave them in, but I don't eat them. If you don't want to be bothered sorting them out, adding the whole leaf is a good alternative and is easily removed at the end. You might want to add a couple whole leaves to account for not breaking them up or, if you have access to a tree, fresh leaves are the best.
Sooooo... how was lunch today ???
Back to the topic - this is a quick fix recipe and our lunch was delicious and
I used canned tomatoes <our own> and one bay leaf, kept whole - not crumbled. I think I'll add more than one the next time I prepare this recipe to get a bit more "bay leaf" flavor.
Now what sounds good for dinner?
Glad you liked the recipe and enjoyed lunch.
I'll see what I can come up with for dinner tonight.
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You may be dyslexic.
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Re: Atumn Soup
Skitterbug, did you notice that I haven't (yet) strayed off-topic?Skitterbug wrote:I'm guessing I can substitute a quart of tomato pieces with the juice - for the fresh tomatoes?
About the only packaged goods I buy nowadays is canned tomatoes.
They arrive in 3-litre cans (100 fl oz), the tomatoes either whole (but very soggy!) or crushed. I sometimes puree the whole-soggy ones in the blender.
Prime use: meat sauce, baked beans.
I have to start making chili; a chili, with ground beef, seems like a meat-sauce-with-pasta dish, beans substituted for pasta.
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Re: Atumn Soup
I've noticed.......ChrisGreaves wrote:Skitterbug, did you notice that I haven't (yet) strayed off-topicSkitterbug wrote:I'm guessing I can substitute a quart of tomato pieces with the juice - for the fresh tomatoes?
About the only packaged goods I buy nowadays is canned tomatoes.
They arrive in 3-litre cans (100 fl oz), the tomatoes either whole (but very soggy!) or crushed. I sometimes puree the whole-soggy ones in the blender.
Prime use: meat sauce, baked beans.
I have to start making chili; a chili, with ground beef, seems like a meat-sauce-with-pasta dish, beans substituted for pasta.
I'm lucky that I have an abundant supply of tomatoes during the growing season so I can preserved them for later use. There is a seedless tomato that we grew for the first time last year. It is delicious, lots of "meat" instead of watery juice, and no seeds to mess with. We also like the Big Mamma paste tomato <yep - interesting name> which is also a very solid tomato. We do grow other types but these two are my choice for canning! I haven't had to buy tomatoes in a very long time!
Skitterbug
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Re: Atumn Soup
Never mind all that!Skitterbug wrote:I'm lucky that I have an abundant supply of tomatoes ...
Who took Argus's post, that's what I want to know?
I don't want to see the bottom of it all covered in porridge or Red River Cereal again, like last time .....
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Re: Atumn Soup
Since we are in the Cooking forum: It was eaten par moi.ChrisGreaves wrote:Who took Argus's post, that's what I want to know?
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