Soups ON!

As winter decided to come back here in Pa the other day I thought what a great day for soup! Now the last time I made a tomato base soup it really wasn't that good, it wasn't terrible but not good either. So I decided to listen to my husband and look in the LL Bean cookbook we have. (You can never go wrong with LL Bean.) So I found two recipes for a stew and adjusted it a little.

Ingredients:

1 lb of Elk Stew meat
 1/4 cup of flour
Salt and Pepper
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 small onions, chopped
1/2 cup green peppers, chopped
1 can corn, drained
1 quart frozen green beans
1 bay leaf
1/4 tsp marjoram
1/4 tsp thyme
1 Tb. chopped  parsley
1/2 cup red wine
1 quart tomato Juice
1 pint of diced tomatoes
1/2 cup white beans
1/2 cup kidney beans
1 cup beef broth

Saute (in same pot your going to cook your soup in) the garlic and onions in Olive oil until soft then add the green peppers. Remove from heat and place in bowl

Roll the meat in the flour, salt, pepper. Brown meat in same pot add garlic, onions and green peppers. Add tomato juice, diced tomatoes, wine, beef broth, corn, green beans, beans and herbs. Cover and let simmer about 5 hours Checking liquid from time to time and stirring.

I must say that this soup was very yummy...in fact we ate it for three days! Cant wait to try again.