Bonnie’s cabbage soup
Vegetable soup is a always a favorite at our house. My partner Bonnie loves to make soups and she usually makes big batches so that there's always some soup in our refrigerator ready to heat up. Leftover soup is usually better the next day anyway and just the thought of homemade soup makes me want to hurry home for dinner.
Like all soups, each batch is slightly different. Depending on Bonnie's mood or what's in the refrigerator at the time, the recipe can change. On this particular day, Bonnie seemed particularly inspired. So i followed her around the kitchen and took notes. Here's the result.
Bonnie's Cabbage Soup
(Preparation: 1 hour, serves 8-10)
- 6 tbsp olive oil
- 2½ cups onions, diced
- 10 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tsp salt
- 9 cups water
- 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 oz)
- 3 tbsp chicken base
- 1½ cups carrots, diced
- 2 cups green peppers, diced
- ½ head cabbage, sliced
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 tbsp cumin seeds
- ½ tsp turmeric
- ½ tsp curry powder
- 1 stick cinnamon
- ½ tsp cardamom seeds
- 1 can diced tomatoes (14 oz)
- 1 apple, chopped
- ½ cup raisins
- salt and red pepper to taste
1. Heat olive oil in soup pot
2. Add onions, green peppers, garlic and salt, sauté until onion is wilted
3. Add, cumin seeds, turmeric, curry powder, cinnamon, cardamom seeds, sauté another 2 minutes
4. Add cabbage and water, bring soup to a boil
5. Add bay leaves, crushed tomatoes, chicken base, carrots; bring soup to a boil again
6. Turn down flame, simmer for 45 minutes
7. Add diced tomatoes, apples, raisins; simmer for another 15 minutes
8. Adjust seasoning to taste
3 comments
Paul, this seems like late winter/early spring fare. Is that right? Or does it taste just as good in November?
Also, I hope you got my email about Great Wall. I’d love to know if it’s new ownership, as everything tasted different.
The Cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over the time of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no long-term commitment.[mcse 2008] It has inspired several copy-cats based around similar principles. The typical claimed intent of the diet is to lose 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of weight in a week, though nutritional experts point out that it is nearly impossible to lose that much fat within a week. This has lent credence to claims that much of the weight lost is water.
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I’ve probably eaten 50 bowls of soup at Paul Young’s house, and this Cabbage Soup Bonnie made had nothing to do with a Cabbage Soup Diet! That’s hilarious! It has something more to do with the fact that she has mastered the art of making soup; it’s no wonder Paul wants to hurry home for dinner, as he mentioned above. If people knew how good her soup is, everyone in town would be following him through the front door at night!
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