Bacon Potato Soup
1 pound of
bacon cut in bite sized pieces and fried off to remove fat. Save the fat to saute the veg
1 pound of potato cut in bite sized pieces
Small onion chopped
Celery chopped
saute the onion and celery in a little
bacon fat until tender
Add the potatoes and
bacon to the pot
Cover with whole milk and simmer until potatoes are tender.
Do NOT let this boil or the milk will break, you want a slow simmer.
I serve this with biscuits and butter and it makes a very filling high calorie meal. Also simple to make and very tasty.
Vegetable
Beef Soup with Barley
Beef stock
Chopped
beef from making the stock, if not enough I chop some chuck to toss in there.
Chopped carot
Chopped celery
Chopped onion
Chopped garlic
Crushed tomato(optional)
Quick Barley
Saute the onion, garlic and celery until tender. Add the stock, carrot and barley(and crushed tomato if using) then simmer(if add raw chopped chuck add it now) until the barley is tender. Add the cooked
beef back to it and bring back to a simmer so the
beef is hot.
Serve with biscuits or cornbread and butter
Beef stew
Cubed chuck
Beef stock
Chopped onion
Chopped garlic
Chopped carrot(bite size rounds)
bit of
bacon fat
Potato cut in bite sized pieces
Saute onion and garlic until almost tender, add the
beef stock and cubed chuck and simmer until the meat is about half done. Add the carrot and potato and simmer until all is tender. Thicken with a corn starch slurry(or flour...).
Serve with buttered biscuits to sop up the gravy