Of Light and Soup
We read The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
a year ago and loved it. And since that time Rachel has been trying to come up with the perfect soup.
You see I am not a fan of soup. I don’t enjoy canned and seldom make it from scratch. Rachel on the other hand has decided that since she can’t eat any canned soup (except for Trader Joes Black Bean and their Split Pea Soup–both of which she loves but aren’t the type of soup she really wants.) And so, she has been making soup (not from recipe just experimenting) and after much trial and error and many variations she has come up with a soup that all of us love.
Rachel’s Soup
Fresh or frozen veggies (sometimes chopped finer than others but all smaller than for a stir fry about a cup or so veggies total)
- carrots
- peppers
- celery
- onion
Noodles (egg noodles are best but rice or potatoes are good)
about a tablespoon Bragg’s liquid amino (best soy sauce ever)
dried or fresh, about a teaspoon each but adjust to taste
- onion powder
- onion flakes
- garlic powder
- chives
- parsley
- black pepper
3 cups water
Simmer only until the starch is cooked through.
This is also excellent with drops of bread dough on top, cooked like dumplings,with sandwiches, or whatever you like to eat with soup.
The best part of this is that Rachel developed it on her own, because she wanted to, and it is good soup.
Good for her! I am not a big soup fan either really, but that sounded really yummy. We’ll certainly be giving it a try next time we’re all in the mood for soup.
Thanks too for your prayers, things took a big turn for the better here today. : )
Too cute! My kids all hate soup, and then they went through this inexplicable acquiescence to it. It took me a couple of days, then I realized they were being so agreeable because we’d watched Despereaux and now soup is cool.
You can take the kid outa the market culture, but you can’t take the market culture outa the kid.
Oh, and don’t even get me started on what they do with duct tape. Dave is Red Green’s hick brother, and he got *real* ticked off when they used an entire roll to build weird little kid experiments.
Hi, Rachel! I’m impressed by your soup!
Hi, Issac and Esther! If you need a head start on creating your own soup recipe, I bet either of you can improve my five-minute soup recipe.
http://davidvs.blogspot.com/2009/05/marvelous-miso.html