We are grateful for the opportunity to share food here in the Garden of Eden!
One way we do that is by giving away free food every single day, and we extend the offer to you too because we are here to help one and all: if you or anyone you know wants or needs food, contact us - we will give you free food, no questions asked.
Another way we do that is by preparing daily feasts for our full time volunteers and having communal meals together, which we share here on the blockchain every day!
Photographs are a great way to share food across time and space to bring people together, and we also love to share the recipes behind the photos to inspire you to recreate the yumminess in your own kitchen & share with family and friends!
Today, we want to share one of our favorite food formulas for an easy, delicious, nutritious, vegan TOMATO VEGGIE SOUP!
This is a medium bodied soup great for transitional seasons.
This recipe is made for the whole Garden of Eden community, and it is an excellent way to use up an abundance of tomatoes! It makes a super big batch that has about 30 2 cup servings, but is very easy to pare down.
Ingredients:
6 chopped onions
2 bunches of celery, chopped
About 12 carrots, chopped
About 24 tomatoes, quartered and puréed in the food processor
1 head cauliflower
1-2 heads broccoli
1/3 head cabbage
1 quart veggie broth
1 head garlic
1/8 cup each fresh basil, oregano, & thyme chopped
Salt to taste
Optional: dairy or vegan cheese for sprinkling on top
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Directions:
Cut all the veggies about 1/2 inch or smaller, except the cauliflower and broccoli which can be a bit bigger. That way you can get multiple veggies in each spoonful!
Start with a bit of oil in the bottom of your pot, and add the chopped onions first.
Sautée for about a minute, then add celery and carrots.
Purée tomatoes while onions, celery, and carrots are cooking. When onions are slightly browned, add tomato purée.
Crank the heat up to high. For us, that means adding another fence panel board into the rocket stove, until the flames are shooting up around the pot. Allow the soup base to cook for about 20 minutes on high. This is a good pocket of time in which to chop more veggies! Add the veggie broth. Water is a fine substitute if you don't have broth; just add a bit more salt and herbs to compensate and add extra flavor.
Add the rest of the chopped veggies- cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, yellow squash. Feel free to use your own favorite veggies! (Note: If you want to use mushrooms, they should go in first with the onions.)
Peel, chop, and add garlic.
Run to the garden and pick herbs. We use basil, oregano, and thyme for this soup; lemon balm and rosemary are nice too! Chop and add the herbs to the soup. Give it about another 5 minutes and then kill the heat and cover it.
This soup is vegan and is delicious as is, but it is also great served with a bit of shredded mild cheese like mozzarella for a stringy effect or fontina for a bit more bite. You can also use vegan cheese if you want it creamy but prefer to avoid dairy!
You can also blend it if you prefer a smooth soup.
Enjoy!
Food is important, and we hope to inspire people to really take time to eat, enjoy it, and share it with someone you love. We also hope to inspire more and more sustainable practices in regards to food!
Food is an honored & elemental part of our daily life in community. You can learn more about our unique, intimate, and super sustainable relationship with food here!
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Glad you like it, QiQi!
This was really a delicious, nutritious and fulfilling soup!!!! Veggies, of course, are my favs, and having them cooked on the rocket stove really adds another level of awesomeness. I hope others will take the opportunity to enjoy this soup. I'd certainly be really happy with another bowl!!! Thanks for sharing the goodness @gardenofeden!!!
You're welcome, @everlove! Cooking over fire is so much fun, and it does add a delicious flavor, and it's wonderful to have a big pot of soup bubbling away on the rocket stove. So easy to make for a crowd, and the flavor gets better the longer it sits!
Ahan hey dear @gardenofeden you did a great job to share this post. because winter season is coming and I usually enjoy to take soup in this cool weather. it looks tasty no doubt. I will try to make it must because my mouth filled with water to see your photography.
Yes it is a great food for colder weather! Soup is so easy to make, delicious, and can be very nutritious too!
Waauuu! I dind'nt know that you were giving free food. Bravo! The world need it! Thank you for your goodness <3
YES!!! That is one of the most important and fulfilling things that we do every day. Thank you for noticing, @lisamalletart!
This is really my kind of food for cool to cold weather. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, @team 101! We're big fans of soup and make them year round because we usually cook in our sustainable outdoor kitchen. However they are especially satisfying as the weather gets colder and we use the indoor wood burning stove for heating our communal space! It's great fun to put a big pot on the stove to bubble away and make the house smell great and add a bit of moisture to the air. We get the heating, the soup making, AND the wood burning stove heats our water for showers too - super sustainable efficiency!
He-he, you're right - it is a GOOD way to add a bit of moisture into the space ♦♦ You're fortunate to have an outdoor #kitchen.
I know my spouse would LOVE To have 1 !!
Oh yes, we count our blessings every day! It is actually relatively easy to make your own outdoor kitchen appliances. You can use just Earthen materials to build your own rocket stove. Check out this link for a tutorial:
https://steemit.com/food/@quinneaker/how-to-build-a-rocket-stove-for-free-video-part-3-these-work-very-well-are-very-sustainable-and-we-use-these-every-day-to-feed
Yuum, this looks delicious! Thanks so much for sharing @gardenofeden! ❤️
You're welcome, @lifeofkaizen! Nice name <3
@gardenofeden, very nice to learn about the tomato soup, looks so tasty, i have never used it and after reading your that useful article now i will try to made and use it. thanks a lot for sharing.
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You're welcome, @rabeel! Hope you have fun making & eating it!
Just used #garlic, #tomatoes, onion, basil & oregano in a recipe tonite -- a spaghetti sauce from scratch [my Family loved ♥ it ].
So I can relate to this recipe .. 24 tomatoes pureed is a lot, yet when I think of Tomato paste & HOW concentrated IT is.. well, it don't seem unreasonable !
Am trying to make more #Vegan recipes, so this means I will have to try this out. Thank u for a fine recipe..
Mmmmm, sounds yummy! Tomato soup and tomato sauce are very similar and use lots of the same ingredients. Herbs can make a big difference in the flavor!
Your sauce sounds awesome. We are blessed to have many freshly picked veggies to add to our food which makes it taste even better--and of course more nutritious. I'm sure you'll love this recipe!!
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Yes very delicious, healthful, and easy to make too!
Upvoted. I'll be resteeming this now :)
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