Today's kitchen adventure is a bit deja vu. I DID make soup-mix a few weeks ago with my in-laws. But, today I've been making soup-mix with my cousin's wife, Krystal Nyland. Since my family members live in Michigan and their growing season begins later we didn't have every ingredient fresh from the garden. So, this recipe is the semi-home-made version.
We began with fresh tomatoes- mostly Roma. Step 1 - blanch the tomatoes. These tomatoes had a LOT of rotton spots on the ends, but no big deal. After blanching we just cut out the rotton spots when we pealed them.
After getting all the peeled and cored tomatoes into the pot we cut them into smaller chunks and put them on the stove to boil.
Now comes the semi-home-made part. We didn't have fresh corn, orka, or butter beans (lima beans). There hasn't been, nor will there be much, corn in many places this year because of the drought. So, we used frozen corn. And they don't have okra here... I guess. Since they don't really know what it is here. We added a whole bag of corn, about a half of a bag of orka, and a bag of buter beans that we cooked down in a separate pot.
After that everything is as usual. Let the soup-mix cook down and pour it into cleaned quart jar.
Ta-da! Soup-mix!
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