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Soup Recipe

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Ok ya’ll I have had a request for my soup recipe….so here goes!!!

Potato Soup

6 potatoes peeled and cubed (I don’t bother peeling them)
1 onion chopped
2 carrots, peeled and sliced
2 celery stalks chopped
5 cubes bullion
4 cups water
1 Tbsp dried parsley
salt and pepper to taste
1 13 oz can evaporated fat free milk (sometime I use this if I want a creamy soup, but I don’t always add it)

Combine all ingredients except milk in large pan, or slow cooker. Cook until vegetables are soft (3-4 hours in slow cooker, stirring in milk the last hour) stir in milk before serving.

If I have left over meat I will add that. It is really tasty with ham or chicken.

Soup Anyone?

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In my continuing effort to train my daughters to be homemakers someday I decided that they needed cooking lessons.

I realized that I do all of the food preparation around my house. Which is OK, however, my girls need to start taking over some of that responsibility. Especially my 8 and 9 year old. They are definitely old enough to help in the kitchen and to be able to prepare some basic meals. I have found too that they really enjoy being with me in the kitchen cooking. We get to spend time together, talk and learn. I have found that once I got over the fact that everything might be a bit slower at first (I can chop a pot of veggies by my self quicker than my two girls can together) I really enjoyed the time with my girls too. I think too that it gives them a sense of accomplishment. When dinner is on the table they have the pride of knowing that they helped.

So here is our cast of characters last night.

Very basic stuff.
But easy enough that everybody got to help.
 
 
Baby Boy Punk, on finding a kitchen full of women, wisely retreated to the living room to chew on a toy in quiet.
Punk #3 got to put the bullion cubes in the pot of water. 


Baby Girl Punk, well, she munched on crackers and felt like she was helping.

Punk #1 Got to chop the onion. And discovered the fine art of crying over a chopped onion!

Look at how good she is doing. I had been married about 5 years before I mastered the art of a well chopped onion, and she is doing it at 9!


Punk #2 peeled and chopped the carrots. She had a great time plopping them in the pot of boiling water with out splashing!


Here Punk #2 is chopping the potatoes. I as a general rule do not peel potatoes. I don’t like taking the time, and the peel is the most nutritious part of the whole potato! I don’t even peel them for mashed potatoes, unless I am wanting to be fancy.


And, last, but not least. Punk #3 stirring the soup, she also got to add all the spices.


Now, the kids wanted me to take a picture of the soup cooking, but the steam kept fogging up the lens, so you will just have to take my word for it when I say that it looked really, really yummy. Especially on a freezing cold day like it was yesterday. They were all very excited to tell Dad that they helped make soup!