You’re a star soup
Another day of Veganuary!
This one we made for lunch and it’s super easy and tasty.
Soups are like that though. You don’t want or like soup until you have soup and then you love soup!
It’s freezing here today, though you wouldn’t know that with the kids choosing to wear short sleeves and shorts, so soup seemed in order.
This is is the base for almost every soup I make. Add and change what you want! This one I did quickly, but if I planted more ahead of time I would have chopped an onion, a few garlic cloves, and half a potato and would have added those, but this is just as tasty and proves that you can really just throw whatever you have into your soup and it’ll be good.
If I was making this because someone was sick, I absolutely would use the food (like chopped onion and garlic) along with the powder version.
Ingredients:
-2-3 cups of water
-2 tsp of salt
-3 tsp of garlic powder
-3 tsp of onion powder
-1 tsp basil
-1 tbs nutritional yeast
-a pinch or two of turmeric
-a handful of mini carrots or one big carrot.
-4 asparagus stalks
-3 broccoli stalks
-as much pastina as you want
I hate offering measurements for things like this. It’s a nondescript vegetable noodle soup. Add seasonings you like and how much you like! This harks back to childhood, and that chicken noodle soup that would warm us on snowy winter days. Or if you lived the south like I did, just cold days without the snow.
Speaking of chicken noodle soup, did you know consuming chicken results in a million UTI’s every year in American women?
On with the soup, boil your water as you do for pasta.
Whilst you’re waiting on it to boil, chop up your veggies and add them in. Don’t walk away from your pot to do something else, it’ll boil over, ask me how I know!
Once your water is boiling add your pastina to cook. These are SO CUTE and fun for the kids. It also adds a little whimsy to the adult life! They cook quickly so be aware.
Add in your seasonings, tasting along the way to see if you like the way it tastes, if not, alter it!
Serve and enjoy!
The kids devoured it, my oldest having three bowls of it!