vegan soup

[misstia]

this is one of my favorite soups of all time!! it's from my The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook from 1975...published by The New Farm a hippy commune in I believe Tennessee....it still exists, though not as a commune anymore

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[brighty18]

That sounds delicious. BTW, The Farm still exists and it's still an intentional community: http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/. Well, I think that this is the same thing.

[misstia]

i knew it still existed...it's no longer a commune though, though it's a community still but run along more democratic lines....here's a very enlightening article i found on vanity fair's website a few months ago! it's from 2007 but it's all about the farm and it's evolution....vanity fair article here....

that site IS the same thing!

[brighty18]

That's really cool. I have a few friends who've lived there over the past few years. Most had a very good experience.

Yeah, an intentional community is not a commune, but I suppose a commune is a sort of intentional community. I actually live at New Buffalo (in NM) which used to be a commune and is now not even an intentional community. There were once many people who went back and forth between here and The Farm (and Hog Farm and Morningstar, too.)

[misstia]

i would love to visit there some day!!

[malana]

You know, I've never actually seen a recipe that used nutritional yeast before, I always just sprinkle it on popcorn (holy crud yum!) This sounds good and easy to make, I'll definitely be trying this one once the weather turns cold.

[misstia]

omg! i never thought of sprinkling nutritional yeast on popcorn, that does sound so good!!!

there's a couple other nutritional yeast recipes in this cookbook i'll post them in the next day or 2! ones for a 'cheese' that can be used on a pizza and it's really good! or you can variate the recipe as a cheese sauce for veggies! there's a cracker recipe too that i think has nutritional yeast!

i made a pot of this soup the other day to help fight my cold/flu/whatever...i call it my vegan chicken soup recipe!!

[feather]

Yay, I'm glad you're going to post the other nutritional yeast recipes! I'm always looking for new ones. :)

Can't wait to try the soup! Although I may have to sub the TVP for something else... not sure if it has gluten or not. Perhaps tofu or tempeh or something. :)

[misstia]

you could probably just not put in the tvp....i don't think it would make that much of a difference in the soup.....just add a little more noodles or rice....

will post the other nutritional yeast recipes in the next day or so!

[hold_fast]

Love The Farm. I'd love to give birth there someday. :) Ina May is my heroine!

[annamaryse]

I had a copy of this book that was totally falling apart. I LOVE the illustrations and pix.

My favorite recipe in the book is the one for chili gravy, I never saw another recipe similar and I use as enchilada sauce to this day (I add an 8 ounce can of plain tomato sauce to their recipe!)

[amelia_eve]

Ooh, would you post this? I'm excited to see some older recipes that are not all jello and spam. Perhaps I'll dig out some of my Moosewood faves.

[annamaryse]

Well... misstiajournal posted this recipe and does have the book now. If she's of a mind to, she could maybe post their actual recipe for the chili gravy

[amelia_eve]

Wow, Moosewood was so ubiquitous among my family and friends for years -- sometimes I was shocked to try what I thought was a new recipe and then realize I'd been eating it for years already. Judging by what I still make, I think the Indonesian Rice Salad and the Stuffed Squash were the most successful. A lot of the Moosewood recipes are actually kind of fussy, and take a long time and many ingredients. And they certainly were not ascetic like the folks at The Farm -- Mollie Katzen loved her sour cream. My mom and I ended up in Ithaca once and ate at the original restaurant, which was a kick.

That chili gravy actually sounds very useful, and it's a true gravy the way they make it, starting with a roux. I wonder how it would come out with stock.