As colder, and colder weather settles in over much of the country, thoughts about, warm, comforting, nutritious, hearty soups and chilis naturally pop into our heads. If you're dreading coming home cold and hungry, warming your day with a bowl of hot, healthy, and hearty soup or savory chili, is a way to cook meals pleasing to your palate, and which may be just the recipe for chasing away the frigid weather blues, while cutting costs in your family food budget.
Few things are as satisfying...
...on a cold day than warming yourself with one of your favorite hearty soups from your recipe box. But that's not all... soups seem to help you stay healthier and recover from illness faster than most any other food. Research studies confirm this though they are hard-pressed to explain why. But in the end, does the 'why' matter so much?
While soups are often excellent sources of healthful nutrients all by themselves, the healing power of soup seems to reach beyond mere nutrition. Your grandma knew this. That's why she would often cook meals for you consisting of a hot chicken soup when someone got sick. And yet the benefits of soup doesn't end there either, especially with the more hearty soups.
Imagine a fresh 8 inch snowfall. You spend an hour shoveling it, and come inside. Shoveling is hard work. When you first come in you're tired, and may well be 'chilled to the bone' from that cold wind outside. Someone sets a steaming bowl of one of your favorite hearty soups in front of you.
Within minutes...
of digging into that bowl, satisfying warmth spreads throughout your body. You relax - maybe to the point where you feel like a short nap. No matter how you feel about the outside, right now after your meal you're feeling warm and cozy and good.
While there are lots of great recipes for hearty soups out there - here's a recipe enabling you to cook meals for your family, and help your family food budget, that is sooo fast and easy, some folks will accuse me of "cheating". Maybe it is, but I have yet to see any soup lover turn a bowl away.
Here's what you'll need:
- 1 lb. of lean beef (you can use whatever is on sale - stew beef, roast, steak - it doesn't matter)
- 1 can beef broth
- 5 medium potatoes - chunked
- 1 lb frozen vegetables
- 1 small onion or 1/4 cup of frozen pearly onion.
- 3 tbs olive oil
- 2 tbs minced garlic
- Spices to taste
If you use a crock pot, you can dump the veggies and broth in right away and add the meat and potatoes as you go. Or... you can forgo the crock pot if you prefer, and cook the soup on your stove. Just use a low setting, and stir more often to keep it from burning.
Since everything is already cooked, it really only needs to warm through before it's ready to eat, but the longer you cook meals like this, the better they will usually taste. For even more flavor, put your soup in the fridge overnight and set it back on a burner to cook in the morning. Cooling and reheating this robust soup enhances the flavor. You can stretch the number of meals you get from it, and help save on your family food budget, by adding some very low cost thickening agents. (see the very end of this article for more on this)
This is one of the hearty soups which can be prepared in a few minutes, and the recipe is a 'snap' to follow. Once your soup meal is ready to serve, it becomes the ultimate "fast food"... ready to eat when you are. It's a great solution for busy families, and is a terrific meal recipe to include with your other favorites for your future meal planning.
With microwaves and reusable containers available everywhere, there's no reason you can't cook meals of warm, savory, soup from this tasty, healthy, frugal recipe almost any place.
Why not save this article with your other favorite meal ideas, and warm up to a satisfying meal which includes a bowl of one of the delicious, hearty soups from your recipe box during the frigid weather?
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