My italian mom's german golumpkies turned into soup

 Golumpki (Stuffed Cabbage) Soup

Serves: 8 servings

Ingredients

1 lb ground ground beef

1 medium onion chopped

1 small to medium cabbage chop

½ cup uncooked rice

1 28 oz can tomato sauce

4 cups beef broth

2 tbs brown sugar

1 tbs cider vinegar

½ to 1 tsp poultry seasoning taste to your likes

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

Instructions
In a stock pot, over medium heat, brown the ground beef.
Add onions to pot and cook until onions soften.
Add cabbage to pot and cook until cabbage starts to soften, maybe about 2-3 minutes.
Stir in remaining ingredients to the pot and allow soup to come to a slight boil.
Lower temperature to a simmer and cover.
Cook for approximately 25-30 minutes or until the cabbage and rice are softened.

Pea Soup really is good

Pea Soup

2 cups  dried peas = 1lb bag, wash and sort peas

3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 cup finely chopped yellow onions
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
1/2 cup finely chopped carrots
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
8 cups water or  broth from boiled dinner see instructions below
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoons fresh thyme

1 cup chopped ham unless your bone is real meaty.

In a large pot, melt the butter over medium-high heat.   Add the onions, celery and carrots and cook, stirring, until just soft, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds.
Add 8 cups of water, peas, ham bone, the bay leaf and thyme, and cook, stirring occasionally, until the peas are tender, about 1 1/2 hours. (Add more water as needed, if the soup becomes too thick or dry.)
Remove ham bone, get any ham you can off it and add back to soup along with 1 cup of chopped ham.

Use an immersible hand blender, or transfer soup to the blender, to make the soup more creamy. I only blend a little bit to cream some of the peas, yet leave some intact and chunky. I like that combination.

 

 New England Boiled Dinner method:

If you are so lucky to have made a boiled dinner
 and smart enough to save the broth, bone with meat still on it

In a large pot, melt the butter over medium-high heat.   Add the onions, celery and carrots and cook, stirring, until just soft, about 3 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds.

Then add boiled dinner broth and bone.  Bring to boiling; simmer 1 1/2 hours.  Remove boiled dinner bone, get any meat you can off it and add back to soup along with 1 cup of chopped meat.

A traditional New England dinner is with smoked shoulder.  You can use a smoked shoulder or corn beef for this method.

Slowcooker Method

Put all the ingredients in the crock-pot. Cover and cook on low about 8 hrs or on high about 4 hrs.

Remove ham bone, get any ham you can off it and add back to soup along with 1 cup of chopped ham.

Use an immersible hand blender, or transfer soup to the blender, to make the soup more creamy. I only blend a little bit to cream some of the peas, yet leave some intact and chunky. I like that combination.

 

Beats Bertucci's Sausage soup in flavor hands down

Beats Bertucci's Sausage soup in  flavor hands down and it's so simple to make you'll wonder why you've made it before

                        Sausage Soup Italian style

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method

--------  ------------  --------------------------------

   1      pound         sweet sausage - use chicken to make a healthier less greasy version

   2      cloves        garlic

   1      14 oz can     diced tomatoes

   1      30 oz         chicken broth

     1/2  bag           spinach

     1/2  cup           uncooked rice

     1/4  cup           Parmesan cheese

Use sausage without casings, scramble it in a dutch oven with the crushed garlic cloves.  Add broth and tomatoes, bring to a simmer.  If more broth is needed add it.  I added 1 more cup of water and a boullion cube.  Add rice, simmer another 20 minutes.  Wash and break up spinach, add to soup, let steam from soup cook spinach.  Sprinkle in some parmesan or mozzarella.

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NOTES : can use beef broth instead of chicken.

add a little zing with red pepper flakes.