#4. winter soup
my grandmother taught me to make this. It is cooked for about 4 or 5 hours. It has stew meat, onions, potatoes, carrots that are scaped and not peeled, frozen corn (she used to cut it off the cob that she took out of her field, no lie) green beans, tomato sauce,
salt, pepper, red pepper...just a little, thyme, rosemary, parsley...a good bit, a little sage, and a teensy bit of sugar and oregano... just a tad, easy to overdo this part.
served with hot cornbread. either pan made or hot water cornbread... which is fried.
and ice tea or cold milk. do I need to say that all ingredients are as fresh as possible and REAL!
I have never given this recipe out before to my memory. It has been a family secret. It came with a wonderful story about stone soup. I have seen the story elsewhere on the web but believe it was common in the days of the great depression which my grandmother lived
through with 10 children and affected her greatly. She and my grandfather also ran an orphanage for abandoned children or people who just could not feed their children would bring them and ask her and my grandfather to take them. It was a sad time and a time full of love and compassion. I and her other grandchildren grew up hearing all these stories. She was 3 months shy of being 100 years old when she passed away. I miss her dearly.
ooopsies. I do get carried away. sorries.
edit: I have all the stuffies, going to make this today. wheeeeeeee!
