Recipes thread

[Aroura]

I gotta share my Grandmother's recipe for Summer Soup! I've just managed to recreate it, and everyone who has tried it just loves it. As a kid, I could eat gallons of this stuff, and same as an adult.

5 carrots, peeled and sliced.
1 cup peas
2 or 3 celery stalks, sliced
1 yellow onion, chopped
(Can sub any veggies of choice, like broccoli, asparagus, etc. About 5 cups total veggies)
2 cups cream or half n half
2 cups milk
4 cups veggie broth (can use chicken if you prefer)
3 tbsp flour
1 stick (half cup) butter or margarine.
1 tsp. garlic powder
2 tsp. Dried sweet basil, or 1 tbsp fresh basil
Salt and pepper to taste. I use about 1/4 tsp. Salt, as the broth and butter provide nearly enough, and a full tsp. of pepper. We like pepper.

Dumplings:
1 cup flour
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1/2 tsp. Salt
Optional 1/4:tsp of white pepper

Slice up veggies.
Mix together ingredients for dumplings and set aside. Mixture will be very wet.
In a large pot or dutch oven, simmer carrots in broth for about 5 to 10 minutes.
In a large frying pan or separate pot, melt butter and saute chopped yellow onion til clear, then add chopped celery and saute another 1 minute.
Add 3 tbsp. Flour and continue to cook another 2 minutes.

At this point you need to take your dumpling mixture and poor it into a colander over the simmering carrots and broth. Press mixture through holes into broth, making many small dumpling.

Stir onion, celery, butter and flour mixture into the broth.
Add cream, milk, garlic powder and basil, then salt and pepper to taste, heat on med about 5 minutes, and serve!
We serve with whole grain sourdough or medieval potato bread on the side. Yum!

This soup is amazingly delicious. Even kids will gobble it up! It takes only about 30 minutes to make, including prep, so it's pretty fast and easy as well.

If you want less fat, use half n half and skim milk, it still tastes awesome! Enjoy!