POORMAN'S SOUP?
This could also be known as Poorman's Soup? It's not too cheap anymore considering the high cost of food, but it is still an economical meal that can feed a lot of people. |
When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time at my best friend's house. Her mother, Nora, was an older kind woman with dark hair and dark eyes. Cindy was a surprise for her mother at 45 years old. One time I was giving her a perm and she got so tickled because I didn't know if I should perm her short hair that was almost like sideburns next to her ears. I had never seen someone laugh uncontrollably before. It was so infectious that soon we were all laughing so hard that we had to compose ourselves before I could get an answer. I did not perm the little sideburns.
"Take two", I forgot to the add carrots! |
I still remember Nora's voice calling out every morning in a meek voice with a real southern drawl, "Cindy, it's time to get up now, I'm leaving soon". "Cindy, I made you breakfast". This probably went on for a good 20 minutes every morning.
Nora made breakfast every morning before leaving for her job at a school cafeteria in a neighboring town. One odd breakfast that I remember was biscuits and chocolate gravy. I have never been much of a breakfast eater, and I had certainly never heard of biscuits and chocolate gravy, so I passed. In fact, I can't think of a time when I did eat breakfast at her house.
Crisis averted! |
My favorite meal that Nora made was a soup using hamburger meat, fresh and canned vegetables with bouillon cubes, salt and pepper. That's it! I still remember the small pot that she cooked it in sitting in the refrigerator with a small plate for a lid.
I make hamburger soup now and it is still my favorite soup to this day. I am making a much larger pot of soup. I'm using my 6-quart Dutch oven, I will be freezing 2-3 quarts of soup in quart sized freezer bags. It is so nice to pull a meal out of the freezer on busy days or on days when I just don't have the desire to cook.
I took a few liberties and added just a few shakes of Kender's salt, pepper and garlic blend seasoning, a soup base instead of bouillon cubes and |
about a half a can of tomato sauce. For some reason my diced tomatoes didn't have much juice in them. |
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Difficult Times Will Come
The fresh vegetables in this recipe are carrots, potatoes, onions and celery. I had a small amount of cabbage that I needed to use, so in it went too. This picture is missing the carrots. |
I had planned to make this soup for the Sabbath, but life got in the way as it sometimes does. By the time we got back home from a three-hour trip into another county to the closest office to fix a problem with a birth certificate/social security error. I only had a short time to prepare for the Sabbath when we got home, so I just made some taco meat, and we had tacos. I had all the accoutrements already prepared in the refrigerator.
Nora's Hamburger Soup
1 pound hamburger, browned (drain if using a high fat content meat)
2 medium potatoes, cubed
1 large carrot, sliced
2 celery stalks, sliced
1/2 small onion, chopped
1 can corn, drained
1 can green beans, drained
1 can diced tomatoes
Water to cover
6 Bouillion cubes
Salt and pepper to taste
Brown ground beef, drain if necessary. Add the onions and celery. Sauté for 10 minutes. Add the rest of the fresh vegetables to the pot. Add the bouillon cubes and the canned vegetables. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer on low until the potatoes are fork tender. (Or until the house is warmed up after a cold night, lol) Salt and pepper to taste. Serve with a nice chunk of buttered bread or rolls.
I jumped up early in the morning to start this soup and warm up the house. It was 55* degrees inside which is quite chilly when you get out of a warm bed. I put on a pot of tea, a pot of water for my hot water bottle and started browning the hamburger meat. I turned on the fan above the stove to circulate the heat that was heading to the ceiling.
I had planned this out the night before because I knew it would be chilly, so I also diced up the potatoes, covered them with water and stored them in the refrigerator overnight which is probably why I forgot the carrots.
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