Since it is so cold today, and I am home again with the childrens. I decided to make a pot of vegetable soup. Usually, I make beef vegetable soup, but I decided to skip the beef for some reason and just make it veggie only.
Ingredients:
1/2 a sweet onion diced
1 bell pepper diced
4 carrots sliced
2 ribs celery sliced
1 jalapeno diced
2 large or 4 small potatoes diced
1 Tbs minced garlic
1 large can petite diced tomatoes with juice
1 can sweet corn with juice
1 can sliced green beans with juice
1 can garbanzo or navy beans with juice
1 small can peas with juice
1/4 cup white wine
2 Tbs lemon juice
3 Tbs olive oil
2 quarts vegetable stock (I didn't have any so I used beef broth shhhh don't tell TB)
sea salt, cracked black pepper, chile powder to taste (I used Joyner's Yellow Ghost)
1 Tbs thyme
1 Tbs basil
3 bay leaves
1 Tbs curry powder
small handful parsley chopped
I sauteed the onion, celery, bell pepper, jalapeno, and carrot in the olive oil for about five minutes to help soften them, added the garlic, thyme, basil, and bay leaves and sauteed another two minutes. Next, the wine, simmer five minutes. Add the broth and all the canned vegetables. Bring to a boil, simmer for an hour and a half to two hours. Readjust seasonings, add the chile powder, curry powder, parsley and lemon juice. Serve with butter bread.