Solid Vegetable Beef Soup Recipe?

I don't follow a recipe with measurements. I just do it. A key to that veggie soup taste is to add turnips. If you don't want them in the soup, then halve them and let them simmer in it. I use them instead of potatoes because I make a lot of it and I don't like all that potato starch breaking down in the soup. I love the turnips, though, and they're lighter.

Roast some good meaty soup bones, deglaze and make a stock. Sometimes, I find that stock just isn't enough or strong enough for the amount I'm making and I have to "beef" it up with a base. I try to use one that's not salty or too salty. I order Minor's low sodium from soupbase.com in case I need it.

Sometimes, I use stew meat. Sometimes, I cut up my own chuck roasts. Sometimes, I cut up a few big rump roasts. I don't brown the meats before adding them to the degreased stock. I would if I was making a roasted veggie soup, but I like the old fashioned kind better. I've made it with brisket ala Tom Fitzmorris a few times, as well. Go to no menu.com and look up his under his recipes.

I like my veggie soup brothy rather than thick, so I use some tomato sauce, but not a lot.

I use:
petite chopped tomatoes
tomato sauce
fresh green beans
onions
carrots
turnips
chopped green cabbage
bell pepper (not a lot)
Green Giant white shoepeg corn (it holds up and is very crisp-freezes well in the soup)
Some shots of Lea and Perrin

If I want pasta in it, I add to the amount of soup I'm serving at the time. It doesn't freeze well in the soup. Gets very mushy.

you can add whatever vegetables you like. Add the ones that need longer to cook, first. Don't cook the carrots to death, for example.

Sorry if this isn't helpful enough without measurements. There aren't really magic measurements for it. Once you make it, you'll want to adjust it to your own preference as to thickness and the veggies you prefer.

P.S. There might be one in the stickied thread in the recipe book or actually in the thread. I think we had an old thread on it, also. I'll see if I can find it.

Theres a few recipes from Tom Fitzmorris that Ive tried and really like. His vegetable soup is on of them. Be warned that its not very tomatoie..... which I like.

Just do a search on nomenu.com

Here's another thread discussing veggie soup.

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Momma Bear was in one or both of those links.