Grandma Deleplaine Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Combine tomatoes, lima beans, okra, potatoes, corn, green beans, carrots, and tomato paste in a large soup pot. Pour chicken stock over mixture and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and simmer until vegetables begin to soften, about 15 minutes.
• Season ground beef with garlic powder, celery salt, and onion powder. Set aside.
• Heat butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and garlic when butter stops bubbling; cook and stir for 1 minute. Spread ground beef evenly in the pan. Cook until it has a nice brown sear, stirring minimally to end up with mostly medium-sized chunks, 5 to 7 minutes. Drain skillet and add beef, onions, and garlic to the soup pot.
• Bring soup mixture to a boil; reduce heat to simmer, cover, and cook until vegetables and beef have cooked down, 1 to 2 hours.

Steps:

• 1. Combine beef shank and water in a large soup pot and boil for 1 hour, skim foam as appropriate.
• 2. Remove beef bones and meat. Discard bones and chop meat into small pieces and return to pot.
• 3. Add next 6 ingredients and simmer for 1 hour
• 4. Rinse barley and soak in warm water for 1 hour
• 5. Add barley, salt and pepper and simmer for 1 hour
• 6. Enjoy over rice, pasta, or with a crusty loaf of French bread!

Steps:

• 1. Wash beef in cold water, and cut into small pieces about 1" cube. Place in large pot with 2 guarts water and biol on simmer for 3 hours or until meat is tender.
• 2. Add all remaining ingredients to the pot and cook until all vegetables are tender, about one hour.

Steps:

• In a large pot over medium heat, melt butter. Cook onion, carrots and celery until onion is translucent. Stir in tomatoes with their juice, salt, pepper, parsley, soy sauce, Worcestershire and paprika. Pour in beef broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes, until vegetables are tender and flavors are well blended.

Steps:

• Cut meat off soup bone; cut in small chunks.
• Brown in 1 or 2 tablespoons hot fat in large kettle.
• Add water and bone; simmer, cover for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
• Remove bone and skin fat from top of soup. Add vegetables and seasonings and cook an additional 20 to 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender.

Steps:

• Stir the beef broth, carrots, celery, parsley, celery seed, and bay leaves into a slow cooker set on High, cover, and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 2 hours.
• Place the ground beef, onion, and garlic into a skillet over medium heat. Cook, stirring frequently to break the beef into small pieces, until the onion is translucent and the beef is browned and no longer shows pink areas, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain off fat, and stir the stewed tomatoes into the beef mixture. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and cook, stirring frequently, until the tomatoes are broken up into small pieces.
• Stir the potatoes, corn, green beans, and peas into the soup in the slow cooker, and add the beef mixture. Stir everything together, cover, and set the slow cooker on High. Cook for 4 hours.