Vegetable Broth and Soup (Photos)

This posting shows the work of the wife (MHNBPF) as she made vegetable broth and vegetable soup today. She is good to set aside the trimmings from vegetables as she preps our meals. She keeps them in a gallon freezer bag in the freezer and makes broth when she has enough to work with. The trimmings and scraps she used today were onion trimmings, including the brown outermost peelings, tomato leftovers that were soft, but not spoiled, carrot peelings, cauliflower stems, cabbage cores, celery ends and trimmings, garlic skins, mushroom stems and broccoli trimmings. To these, she added some carrot, celery and onion.



She cooked these in water with salt and a little sugar. The nice color comes from the brown onion skins. About 30 years back, Julia Child shared this secret during one of her original black and white cooking shows.

The remnants look grungy, but the broth is extremely flavorful.



After cooking her trimmings for an hour or so, she removed the trimmings



and strained the broth



This is ready to store in the freezer or use, which is what she did today, with the result a very low calorie vegan soup.

This is what she did to make our soup.

She pulled some butterbeans and creamed sweet corn from the freezer.



Some okra from the freezer and a can of green beans from Kroger's



Cut up some celery



a generous portion of carrots



and a can of Kroger's diced tomatoes



Her mise en place:



All went into the pot and cooked for maybe an hour. The broth was already seasoned and needed only a slight addition of salt and black pepper. At some point, she also added a little whole kernel corn from the freezer. I guess I missed getting a photo of that.

Here is our soup in the bowl.



and on the spoon



nice Saturday night meal.

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