Peg Harvey-Sweeney

Yield: 4 Servings

Cook Time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 large yellow onion, diced
• 6 garlic cloves, chopped
• 3 (14 ounce) cans of hunt’s fire roasted tomatoes
• 2 cups chicken stock (or vegetable stock for vegetarian)
• 1/2 cup half and half (skip this if you want)
• 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper (maybe a bit less)
• 10-20 fresh basil leaves, chopped
• salt and pepper, to taste

Directions:

In a heavy bottomed pot over medium high heat, pour in the olive oil and saute onion until translucent. Add the chopped garlic (except for 1 clove) and sauté with the onion for 2 minutes.

Next, add the cans of fire roasted tomatoes (including the juice) to the pan and cover for about 15 minutes, stirring as needed. Add the chicken stock and half & half and bring to a simmer. Cook uncovered, for 10 minutes or until it has thickened.

Add the remaining chopped garlic clove, crushed red pepper, fresh basil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Lower your heat to medium-low and cook for 5 minutes more.
Using an immersion blender (or carefully transfer soup to a blender), puree soup until there are no large chunks of tomato left. Serve immediately with a hunk of warm french bread and get to dipping!

Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Nutrition Info per 1 serving: 204 calories. 10.7 fat. 22.5 carb. 6 fiber. 4 protein.

Annie Benson Peevler

• 2 lbs. beef stew meat
• 2 tsp. salt and pepper
• 2 or 3 onions, chopped
• 1 can (5.5 oz.) V-8
• 1 can (No. 203) tomatoes, juice or soup (I use a pop can size of tomato juice)
• 1 c. or 1 can beef bouillon
• 2 stalks celery, cut in 1Ó pieces (I use celery salt instead)
• 5 or 6 carrots, cut up
• 4 or 5 potatoes, cut up
• 1 1/2 cups frozen peas
• 3 or 4 T. quick cooking tapioca
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 1 T. Worcestershire sauce

Season meat; arrange in ungreased 13” x 9”casserole. Add other ingredients. Bake 3 or 4 hours, until meat is tender, at 250 deg. Cover; do not peek for the first 3 hours.

Note: Can be made the night before and reheated the next day. Excellent with homemade biscuits.

I tried a ton of Beef Stew recipes and never really loved any of them — until I found this one. No browning the meat — you just throw everything in one big dish and in the oven it goes!

Annie Benson Peevler

• 3/4 C. chopped onion
• 3 T. butter
• 4 to 6 C. diced potatoes
• 1/4 C. flour
• 8 oz. Velveeta cheese
• 1 can Campbell’s Pepper Jack Cheese
• 3/4 C. shredded carrots
• 1 t. basil
• 2 cans or 3 C. chicken broth
• 1 1/2 C. milk
• salt and pepper to taste

In pot sautee onion, carrots and basil in 1 T. butter until tender, add potatoes and chicken broth and boil until potatoes are tender (10 to 12 min.)

In a small pan or skillet melt remaining butter, stir in four, add this to soup and stir for a few minutes.

Add Velveeta cheese, can of pepper jack soup, milk, salt and pepper. Cook and stir until cheese melts.

Melinda Campbell

• 1/3 c. Olive Oil
• 1 medium Onion
• 1t. minced Garlic
• 1/3 c. Flour
• 1 – 14z Can Diced Tomato
• 2 – 14z Cans Chicken Broth
• 2t. dried Basil
• 1/2 t. salt
• 1/2 t. pepper

Heat Olive Oil… saute garlic and onion — stir in flour and then remaining ingredients. Blend with wire whisk and simmer 30 minutes. Puree and food processor and serve…

Serves 6.

Rosemary Fritzjunker

Makes a gallon.

[Editor’s note: Vegies from the cabbage family have lots of antioxidants, and are reputed to keep you from getting cancer.]

Heat large pan and add sausage and onion and sauté.

Add:

• 4 quarts chicken stock
• 2 T. Olive oil
• 1 lb. Chorizo Sausage sliced 1/2 inch thick
• 1 large onion- chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley
• 1 cup dried navy beans which have been soaked overnight
• 2 bay leaves
• Cook covered 1 1/2 hours covered.

Add:

• 1 can red beans
• 2 large potatoes, peeled and diced
• Bunch Kale, washed and chopped
• 1/4 t. pepper
• 1/8 red pepper

Cook 1/2 hour more or until potatoes are done. Remove bay leaves.

Serve with slices of French bread.