Yesterday I was weepy. It was one of those days. What can I say… I needed comfort. Comfort food. Healthy comfort food, at that.
Better than crying in your soup? Making soup. Then you can dispense with tears altogether.
Though the sky is dreary and damp, the colors of my veggies are cheerful and appetizing. So please enjoy my weekend cooking endeavor – a hearty veggie soup, entirely organic, at a cost of approximately $14 for the veggies and $4 for the organic broth.
Now scroll down a little. Check out the pics.
Pretty soup — even in process — isn’t it?
Not only that, it’s delicious.
Ingredients
2 32-oz. containers of organic chicken broth
1 zucchini
2 carrots
2 medium tomatoes
6 medium red potatoes
1 medium leek stalk
1/2 red onion
1 cup of mushrooms
3 cloves of garlic
3 bay leaves
Or any other veggies you have – bell peppers, squash, and so on – more of what you love and less of what you “just like.” Have a little barley to throw in? A few spare egg noodles? Toss them in, too!
Directions
Hey, you know my style. When it comes to cooking, relax! So here goes:
- Chop your vegetables.
- Throw them in a pressure cooker.
- Add the chicken (or vegetable) broth.
- Add your seasoning (I like pepper, but I generally don’t add salt.)
- Allow 10 to 15 minutes of “whirling top” on your pressure cooker.
My total time is 30 minutes from the time I first close the pressure cooker until the full steaming process completes. Read the directions on your cooker. Then turn off the heat, cool the container off with cold running water. Open, season, and serve.
Sometimes I add a spoonful of Dijon mustard after the fact and mix it in.
Care to see, up close and personal?
First, an image of everything chopped and thrown in the pressure cooker. That’s followed by adding the broth. Eh voilà. Soup, with a bit of steam rising off the top!
Pop by here for other pictures, this time of my winter veggie soup. (Yes, similar. But you really should see the shoes!)
Shoes Cure Blues!
And fab footwear for a cozy evening at home with a healthy, comforting bowl of soup?
I’d say that casual (but chic) is the way to go. How about these lovely Via Spiga lace up wedge booties in cashew?
I’d wear them with jeans and a soft colored sweater top, possibly with a touch of orange… to match the carrots in the soup!
Click on the image of wedge booties to access the item at Bloomie’s.
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We definitely don’t have the same taste in shoes (I’m not into heels) but I LOVE the wedge booties. Yes! And the soup looks like a healthy way to feed your soul.
Delish, Judith. (Shoes and soup both!)
This looks wonderful! I, too, have made a lot of soup recently. Been weepy, too. I think it is the time change, the early darkness and the almost constant grey of where I live that makes soup so comforting at this time of year. I cook mine in either my turquoise Le Creuset or my yellow one. Both are happy colors that never fail to cheer me up.
My most recent success? Two onions, two carrots chopped into tiny squares, one peeled and grated sweet potato and one large russet, in tiny squares. A teaspoon of red thai chili paste and one inch of extremely thinly sliced ginger root. All vegies organic and organic vegetable broth as well. Out comes a cup or so, pureed in the blender and then put back, (the man in my life likes thick broth with chunky vegies). I also added some pumpkin puree to the mix. I had cooked up a sweet pie pumpkin for a pie but wasn’t thrilled with the result, so in it went. Except for the pumpkin, everything is a root vegetable, in season and local (ok, except for the chili paste).
Hope you’re feeling better. I am.
That sounds fantastic, Lunaboogie. I need to try your recipe! Thanks!
I just put a chicken in the crock pot for soup tomorrow! The best broth…throw a whole chicken in a crock pot, fill with water, throw in a teaspoon of sea salt, a large sprig of fresh rosemary, one chopped onion, three chopped celery; and two cloves of garlic…oh yes, almost forgot the pepper. Makes a rich delicious broth that you can do whatever you like with! And cures the common cold!!!!
Sounds delicious!
I wish you were here. I could really use a bowl of nourishing, delicious, and beautiful soup. I’ve been sick for a week with one of those things that moves around from your throat to your glands and ears, taking up residence in your sinuses for a while. This whole week, I kept saying I wish I had some homemade soup with chicken broth. I would have been better the very next day 🙂
I just bought a nice pair of Classic Timberlands. Any shoe goes with a hearty vegetable soup!
I don’t own a pressure cooker. I just slow cook over the stove for hours and the house smells so aromatic from the herbs and seasonings.
I hope you’re feeling better, Rob. Those lingering head cold / sinus things are miserable.
I bet your Timbetlands go with all kinds of things! (And homemade soup looks good even in fuzzy slippers… But shhh, you never heard me say that.)
Fashion accessories to match the ingredients in your soup – I like your style.
I still get teased by my kids for choosing a cat once because it matched the cat I saw in a Martha Stewart magazine. Hey – at least it (she) was from the Humane Society. And she DID become a beloved family member for years.
🙂
This soup looks fantastic, Wolf. What better way to heal your heart by feeding it fresh ingredients. Hope the weepiness passes. xoxo
I am loving the recipe+shoes=happiness posts. More please! And sending a virtual hug your way as well…