2 ½ cups carrots, sliced into about ¾” pieces
1 cup milk, half-and-half, or evaporated milk
1 Tbsp butter
1 Tbsp flour or corn starch
1 tsp sage
1 Tbsp cilantro
½ tsp nutmeg
1 Tbsp minced green onion
¼ cup chopped tomato
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp ground pepper
Boil carrots in salted water until soft, there is no resistance to being pierced with a fork. Drain, reserving ¾ cup of broth. Put carrots, broth, milk, and tomato in the blender.
In the pot, cook over low heat the butter, flour, sage, cilantro, and green onion. Add this to the blender and blend until it is completely smooth.
Return to the pot. Stir in the nutmeg, salt, and pepper. Bring the soup back up to a hot temperature, and serve.
Makes 2-4 servings.
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4 cups water or vegetable stock
2 cups diced potatoes
1 cup chopped carrots
1 tsp minced garlic
1 Tbsp minced celery
¼ cup oil
1 cup chopped leeks
1/3 cup minced onion
3 Tbsp cornstarch or flour
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
¼ tsp dried oregano
¼ tsp dried thyme
1/8 tsp ground cardamom
In a medium pot, bring the water, potatoes, carrot, and celery to a low boil.
Meanwhile, mix the oil, garlic, leeks, onion, cornstarch/flour, salt, and pepper in a skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the cornstarch browns. Stir into the stew.
Add the rest of the seasonings and allow to simmer over low heat until the potatoes and carrots are soft and the stew is thick.
Makes 4 servings.
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2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp flour or corn starch
3 cups water or vegetable stock
1 tsp salt
¾ cup carrots, chopped
1 ¼ cup potatoes, cut into largish chunks
2 Tbsp grated cheddar cheese
2 Tbsp minced bell peppers
½ tsp ground black pepper
¼ tsp mint
1 tsp fennel leaves
½ tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp basil
pinch of lavender buds
1 cup (packed) spinach
½ cup cauliflower florets, chopped
Melt the butter and the flour together over medium heat. Stir in the water/vegetable stock and whisk. Add the salt, carrots, potatoes, cheese, and bell pepper. Simmer until the potatoes are soft. (This takes a while.)
Add all the rest of the ingredients, and cook until the spinach is wilted and shrunk.
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2 cups water or veg. stock
1/3 cup diced onion
1 cup roughly chopped carrots
2 ½ cups roughly chopped beets
2 cups milk or nut milk
½ tsp salt
½ tsp pepper
1/8 tsp dried mint leaves
1/8 tsp dill weed
1/8 tsp thyme
Boil the beets, carrot, and onion in the water, until beets and carrots are soft. Transfer to a blender and blend until it's a thick liquid. Return to stove, over low heat. Add the milk and seasonings. Stir until heated through.
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7 cups water or vegetable stock
6 Tbsp corn meal
3 Tbsp oil
1 ½ tsp salt
¾ tsp pepper
¾ tsp basil
½ tsp thyme
1 ¼ pound potatoes, diced
5 carrots, chopped
3 celery sticks, chopped
1 ½ medium onions, chopped
1 ½ cup peas
1 ½ cup corn
3 cups beans, precooked
Dumplings:
2 ¼ cup flour
¾ tsp salt
¼ cup butter
1 ¼ cup milk or nut milk
3 egg whites
Whisk the corn meal into the water/vegetable stock. Add the rest of the ingredients. Cover and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Let it simmer, but not boil.
Combine flour and salt in a bowl. Cut in butter until mixture is like coarse crumbs. Beat in milk and egg whites. Drop dough in spoonfuls into the stew. Cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Cover and cook for 10 more minutes until dumplings are done.
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4 Tbsp butter
½ cup – 1 cup diced onions
4 lbs tomatoes, diced
¼ tsp thyme
½ tsp basil
¼ tsp black pepper
3 Tbsp flour
2 cups vegetable stock or chicken broth
¼ tsp baking soda
3 Tbsp sugar
1 ½ cups evaporated milk (12 oz can)
½ tsp salt
6-10 slices of bacon
In a large saucepan, saute the onions in the butter until tender, about 10 minutes (do not brown). Add the tomatoes, thyme, basil and pepper. Simmer 10 minutes. Whisk the broth and flour together and add to the soup mixture. Cover and simmer for 25 minutes, then remove from heat.
Fry the bacon until crispy and let cool, then crumble. Puree the soup in a blender, then return to the stove. Stir in the baking soda, sugar, milk, salt, and bacon. Heat, stirring, to a bare simmer, just to get it hot again.
Serves 3-4 people.
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½ cup rolled barley
4 cups vegetable stock
1 tsp olive oil
½ leek, chopped
4 oz. white mushrooms
1 clove garlic, minced
2 beets, chopped
½ large fennel bulb, chopped
2 Tbsp fresh dill
¼ cup corn
½ tsp salt
Dumplings:
1 cup white wheat flour
1 cup cornmeal
1 tsp salt
1 cup water
1 Tbsp oil
Combine the ingredients for the dumplings in a medium bowl and mix with a fork.
Bring the stock to a boil, then add barley, olive oil, leek, mushrooms, garlic, beets, fennel, dill, corn, and salt, and let it simmer for about 5 minutes.
Plop in the dumpling dough by the spoonful, cover the pot and let simmer for 10 minutes. Do not lift cover until dumplings have cooked for 10 minutes, but make sure it doesn't overflow.
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Old favorite from an Amish cooking book.
Snitz:
1 ham hock
1.5 cups dried apples (or chopped fresh apples if you don't have the former)
2 Tbsp brown sugar
Place ham hock in heavy saucepan. Cover with 2 quarts water and boil 2 hours. Add apples and brown sugar. Add an additional 1.5 quarts water and cook until apples are soft. Add knepp.
Knepp:
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
2 Tbsp melted butter
1/3-½ cup milk
Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add beaten egg, butter, and milk. Use only enough milk to make a sticky dough that will drop easily off a spoon. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling ham and apple mixture. Cover tightly and boil for 15 minutes.
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