What's in your vegetable soup?

[WDWisOurHappyPlace]

Made my first vegetable soup of the year. I bought a soup bunch from my local grocer.

In the soup bunch was:

1 red potato
1 sweet potato
1 turnip
1 onion
1/2 green pepper
4 green onions
3 stalks celery
4 carrots
1/2 small cabbage

I added a can of corn and a can of tomato sauce. I had a piece of chuck roast, chicken breast, and salt meat in my freezer so used that for the meat. I used Swanson chicken and beef broth also.

So, what's in your soup?

 

[joyjoy]

My vegetable soup has vegetables in it. How can it be vegetable soup if it's made with meat, chicken, meat broth and chicken broth?

I never understood that. Even canned soup - it's called "vegetable soup" but if you read the ingredients, it's made with beef broth.

I'm a vegetarian, btw.

 

[DVCLiz]

I make vegetable beef soup. I use either sirloin tips if I have a package left over in the freezer or stew meat I buy at the grocery store. I cut it into bite size pieces and boil it for an hour or so with salt, pepper, a diced onion and some bay leaves. Then I add whole tomatoes I've put through the blender, a can of tomato paste to thicken, celery, carrots, corn and potatoes I've also diced.

Mmm, I want to make some now - it's my go-to winter comfort food.

 

[Crystal0608]

How was the sweet potato and turnip in the soup? It sounds yummy!

I use a combo of whatever is on sale fresh: new potatoes, baby carrots, celery, garlic, shallots or onions, and usually from a can- corn, green beans, limas, beans, mushrooms. Then I add Lipton onion soup mix, spicy V8 juice, and fresh herbs. When I add meat, I usually add ground beef.

 

[crz4mm2]

I use tomato juice and VEGGIES (onions, corn, peas, green beans,potatoes). Not beef.
SO mine really IS vegetable soup

 

[WDWisOurHappyPlace]

My vegetable soup has vegetables in it. How can it be vegetable soup if it's made with meat, chicken, meat broth and chicken broth?

I never understood that. Even canned soup - it's called "vegetable soup" but if you read the ingredients, it's made with beef broth.

I'm a vegetarian, btw.

Hello, my name is "wdwisourhappyplace" and I put meat in my vegetable soup.

I find meat gives the broth a more flavorful taste, but I'm not vegetarian.

How was the sweet potato and turnip in the soup? It sounds yummy!

I use a combo of whatever is on sale fresh: new potatoes, baby carrots, celery, garlic, shallots or onions, and usually from a can- corn, green beans, limas, beans, mushrooms. Then I add Lipton onion soup mix, spicy V8 juice, and fresh herbs. When I add meat, I usually add ground beef.

The ONLY time I eat turnips is in soup. I probably wouldn't buy a sweet potato to put in soup, but it comes with the soup bunch so I use it. They both are good in vegetable/beef soup.

 

[bigbabyblues]

I use tomato juice, peas, frozen corn, potatoes, green beans, carrots, sometimes lima beans (DH doesn't like them, boys & I do), and sometimes a package of stew meat. I guess mine is vegetable beef soup....

 

[MIGrandma]

I have made hamburger vegetable soup for my family for about 30 years. Never just plain vegetable, always hamburger in it.

I used to make it in the slow cooker, but now I just cook it on top of the stove and then let it simmer 2-3 hours or all afternoon.

Besides hamburger (a pound or a bit more, cooked and drained) I put in some tomato juice or V8 (whichever I have on hand), then chunked potatoes, kidney beans, carrots, celery, onion, corn, zucchini, summer squash, peas, sometimes a little rice or barley, salt and pepper, sometimes I add a cup or two of water if I need to. I have added pasta (either elbow macaroni, or twists) occasionally but rarely.

 

[jsmith]

i make beef and barley soup with veggies-short ribs, onion, carrot, celery, canned tomotes, frozen veggies-i try to get a good mixed one that includes orka, and beef broth. a little medium pearl barley (not too much or your have barley with veggies )

 

[pjlla]

DId you put both the chicken and beef broth in the same batch of soup? If so, how did it taste? I have never mixed them. I keep beef with beef (meat/stock) and chicken with chicken. It would just seem odd to me to mix them up.

I have never put turnip in my soup (just a veggie I don't like) or sweet potato... even though I like them.

My veggie soup usually has celery, onions, carrots, white potatoes, and then sometimes corn, kidney beans or black beans, usually in a V-8 juice base.... but sometimes in a broth or stock base (usually chicken, but occasionally beef). Sometimes I use orzo or macaroni instead of potato... depends on what is in the house!

I often make hamburger soup or chicken noodle soup using many of these same ingredients, but I don't call it vegetable soup......P

 

[Tinijocaro]

I'll put anything and everything in my veggie soup if it's a vegetable, not much into potatoes though.

My favorite is OKRA! I love to bite down on those little round pieces-yum!

 

[Swimnoid]

Beef vegetable for me. I put in round steak or stew meat, beef broth, salt, pepper, barley, carrots, onions, celery, tomatoes, parsley and sometimes corn and peas. Last month I had a half can of mushrooms sitting there so I threw those in too.

 

[joyjoy]

I use tomato juice and VEGGIES (onions, corn, peas, green beans,potatoes). Not beef.
SO mine really IS vegetable soup

 

[rascalmom]

I don't make vegetable soup - I make either beef stew with vegetables, or chicken soup with vegetables.

I'm not a vegetarian and I prefer the flavor that a meat stock gives the soup.

With beef, I use potato, carrots, celery, corn, peas, onion and tomatoes.

With chicken, I use corn, carrots, okra, tomatoes, onion and tomatoes. I also usually add some rice or noodles. When the mood strikes, I make a roux, add some mild sausage and make it into gumbo.

I had an excellent taco soup today though & I will try it soon - they had used leftover, season taco meat, veggies and tortilla strips. So yummy!

My all-time favorite soup is navy bean & ham.

 

[barkley]

see now, it would never occur to me to go shopping for items to put into vegetable soup. it's made in our house with whatever is on hand. sometimes i make it with meat (chicken or beef), sometimes without. i tend to make soup pretty often and BIG batches-i end up with at least one gallon size ziplock full to put in the freezer (in addition to enough to last several days in the fridge).

i always have celery, onions and potatos on hand so it's a given they are in there. last week i had some cabbage and baby carrotts sitting around so it went in too. i shop twice a year at our local store's case sale so i always have canned peas, mushrooms, green beans, and corn on hand if i want to add it-and i purposely buy a case of veg-all just to have on hand for quick batches of soup. i also keep canned kidney beans on hand so if it's a strictly vegetarian veggie soup i add these in for protean.

right now i have 4 types of soup frozen in the freezer (all homemade)-chicken veggie, beef veggie, new england clam chowder, and turkey pot pie (think of turkey pot pie filling but the consistency of a soup).

5 items i try to never be without in my pantry for soup making-white wine, red wine, beef buillon cubes, chicken buillon cubes, and good quality dehydrated mushrooms. i can make a base to saute my veggies with them individualy or in combinations

 

[The Princess]

So now vegetable soup is on my menu this week! They all sound so good!!
Thanks for the idea

 

[WDWisOurHappyPlace]

DId you put both the chicken and beef broth in the same batch of soup? If so, how did it taste? I have never mixed them. I keep beef with beef (meat/stock) and chicken with chicken. It would just seem odd to me to mix them up.

I have never put turnip in my soup (just a veggie I don't like) or sweet potato... even though I like them.

My veggie soup usually has celery, onions, carrots, white potatoes, and then sometimes corn, kidney beans or black beans, usually in a V-8 juice base.... but sometimes in a broth or stock base (usually chicken, but occasionally beef). Sometimes I use orzo or macaroni instead of potato... depends on what is in the house!

I often make hamburger soup or chicken noodle soup using many of these same ingredients, but I don't call it vegetable soup......P

I ended up putting a mix of meats in the soup because that's what I had in my freezer and wanted to use it up. I had beef and chicken broth on hand, I had beef AND chicken for the soup, so used both broths. The mix of flavors made the soup very good.

My meat of choice for soup is chuck roast. It's what I prefer.

I call it vegetable soup, and I will continue to call it that.

 

[Heather1101]

I make vegetable beef soup:

1 pkg of stew meat cut into small cubes
1 family size bag of frozen mixed veggies
4 potatoes, peeled and diced
celery, 2 stalks, sliced
1 large onion, diced
1 can beef broth
1 jar spaghetti sauce
2 cans stewed or diced tomatoes
cabbage, chopped into thin strips


In the soup pot brown celery, onions, and meat together. Then put in spag. sauce, broth, tomatoes, mixed veggies, and potatoes. Stir and bring to a boil. Add cabbage, salt, pepper, and water depending on how thin or thick you want the soup.

 

[Tikitoi]

parsnips...

 

[lovesmurfs]

After every meal, I spoon any leftover veggies into a running gallon-size freezer bag I keep in the freezer. When the bag's full, I make soup! It also saves me having lots of leftover veggies (in 2 Tbls quantities!) in the fridge.

I don't usually add meat, but I confess to using chicken broth.....Forgive me!