bean soup UPDATE

[fabricdragon]

wanted to have some soup tomorrow... so:

i bag of 16 bean  mix from the grocery store
1 chopped onion
2 potatoes chopped
1 portabella mushroom, sliced
3 (more like 2) carrots
4 bouilion cubes (chicken)

wash beans
throw it all in a pot
we will see how it urns out tomorrow, but i PLAN to serve it with some steamed spinach and some noodles or something.....

yes

Comments

[wicked_abandon]

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty basic base for many soups. I'd nix the potatoes, personally, because it seems like they'd compete with the beans, but you could add all sorts of seasonings to that. The first thing that came to my mind was this CRAZY good BBQ seasoning I bought from craft. . . BBQ bean soup?!

Be sure to let us know what combinations you come up with!

[fabricdragon]

yes the potatos could fight with it.. but they thicken the soup base nicely, and i wanted a thicker soup......
also i had two potatoes at the end of their lifespan.... might as well use em up

as of this morning it is dark brown, smells wonderful, and very thick

[wicked_abandon]

Hm. If you try this again, what would you think of cooking the potatoes separately, then blending them until creamy before adding them to the soup? Thickening achieved in a very different way, while shrinking their size and altering the texture significantly, so maybe they'd be friends with the beans!

Just a thought <3

[fabricdragon]

it sounds like a possibility. mind you i have, in the past, used pureed tofu to do that.

in this case i really wanted low time investment, peeling and chopping was about all i had "spoons" for, having been ill.

but yes that would work

[fallconsmate]

i think there are vegetarian/vegan soup bases out there, similar to bouillion.

when i do soup beans, i put in garlic and basil and onion and some sausage...the mushrooms sound wonderful in it!

garlic

[fabricdragon]

garlic would be a very good addition to this soup...... except for the fact that i am allergic to it
lol
sadly allergic to onions when raw.... (overnight in the crock pot ends THAT problem) or garlic, ...... period.
my tolerance for garlic is about, one serving of commercial Italian dressing, that is to say, if you can detect the garlic, i cant eat it.

made working at the mexican restaurant kind of interesting, there were all of the salsa mixes i had to make, but had to have someone else taste

Re: garlic

[wicked_abandon]

Omg. Allergic to garlic. :(((((

Re: garlic

[fabricdragon]

yup
and raw onions
makes eating out.... interesting.
makes being vegetarian... interesting, and is one reason i fail at it.

if i handle a raw galic clove my skin puffs up and starts cracking and bleeding, imagine what it does inside me....
sad
so much good food

[sp23]

I love that sixteen bean soup mix. How long did you end up cooking the soup in your crock pot?

[fabricdragon]

i put it on about the time i posted... i guess, maybe.. 9pm?
put it on HIgh 6 hours (a mistake, i shoudl have put it on low i think, or high 4 hours only)

then didnt eat it until about 10 am? it was good.. but a BIT overcooked. just a hair.

but BOY were those beans done

in future? more mushroom, less potato, but the potato did actually work out

[thisprairielife]

Mmmm, beans. I don't know what I would do with myself if I was allergic to garlic, though.
As far as thickening, instead of the potatoes, you could try chickpea flour, it is a really great thickener, and seems like it would be harmonious with everything else.

[fabricdragon]

the potatoes did work out fine...

and yes, the garlic allergy makes life.. interesting.