Somehow I'd managed to miss the Carnival of Recipes phenomenon until just recently. At Victor's urging, I submitted beigli and chrusciki to Carnival # 18, and then I spent mucho time when I was home Wednesday going back through past Carnivals bookmarking things to try. And in this week there are one..two...three...a bunch...of recipes that sound really good, including some that may keep me from becoming a vegetarian. (Mmmmmm, steak and blue cheese, a combination I find hard to resist.)
That also reminded me, I meant to write down the soup I made the other day. Nothing fancy, and by "made," I of course mean "assembled." If I open more than one can, it counts as cooking, right?
Sweet potato & black bean soup:
Diced onion (I used about a half a large one, because by the time I got the first half diced, I was tearing up.)
A heaping teaspoon of jarred minced garlic
Saute the onion and garlic in olive oil in a pot big enough to hold soup.
Add a can of diced tomatoes with liquid, and a can of black beans with some of the liquid drained off the top (the bean liquid just looks unappetizing to me. It's too cloudy.)
Add one or two sweet potatoes, diced into 1/2 inch pieces. (I used two that were on the small side, but the ratio was a little too tilted toward the potato. One large potato would have been better, I think.)
Add roasted vegetable broth until potatoes are covered.
Season with chili powder and ground ginger. (Yeah. Here was my line of thinking...I won't claim it was "logic"...I have heard that ginger and garlic are good for head colds. Now I suspect that fresh ginger is what people mean, but I didn't have fresh ginger. I figured the ground kind couldn't hurt. Well, actually, it could have made the soup revolting, but then I'd have ordered a pizza. But it worked, using maybe six shakes of the chili powder and two of the ginger.)
Cover and simmer until the potatoes are tender.
It didn't help my head at all, but it was a fine dinner.
Posted by Nic at December 17, 2004 03:32 PM