Vegetable Soup

photo by sara tady ©

Brrrr!  The Blizzard of 2011 left me stranded inside today so I whipped up a big pot of soup with the vegetables I had on hand.  Here's what I used, but please, there are no limits on what you could come up with.

Ingredients:

1 Box of Chicken stock (I use Organic and Free Range)

2 potatoes, chopped

2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped

1 half yellow onion, chopped

2 carrots, chopped

2 celery stalks, chopped

1 large, peeled rutabaga (this came in my box of produce)

8 large leaves of Kale, roughly chopped

1 cup of whole wheat Rotini pasta

Olive Oil

Salt and Pepper

Directions:

1) chop all vegetables in roughly the same size- this is key for even cook times :)

2) coat the bottom of a large pot with a thin layer of olive oil, low-med heat

3) drop all vegetables into the pot and simmer, add a liberal amt of salt and pepper - 8-10 minutes

4) add the chicken stock to the pot, turn heat to med, put the lid on, let simmer for another 10 mins

5) in a separate pot, bring water to a boil, salt and drop in pasta- 8 minutes

6) after the noodles are cooked, strain, and drop into the soup

7) salt/ pepper to taste- feel free to drop in other dried herbs you have on your spice rack (think parsley, oregano, thyme, etc)