Fresh winter vegetables with homemade all beef smoked sausages: ginger, leek, celeriac root, wintercarrot, garlic, dried red thai pepper, dried split or whole green peas, simmering all night. A dinner meal in itself. Served with fresh sour dough bread, topped with celeriac sauce or parmesan cheese.

A freshly made tomato vegetable soup for lunch or dinner, flavorful all on its own, with slices of leftover beef tongue.#CA2025

A winter classic! This soup is a great field hot luncheon to take in a thermos flask when working outside on a cold day.Dried split peas are peas that have been halved, the outer shell removed, to speed up the drying process. Split peas take 24 hours to reconstitute, plus slow boil 3 hours in a dutch oven.Whole frozen peas have their outer shells intact, more nutrients, are creamier, and don’t need soaking. Makes a hearty meal with fresh baked farm breads, especially rye breads.

Mirepois ( me- ray- pwa) is a well kept french cooking secret. It flavors sauces, dinners, soups, and salads. You chop a cup each of celery, onion and carrot, add 2 chopped garlic cloves, and fruit it in olive oil, then add any other ingredients you like. Here is what it does to lentil dinner soup.

When marinading a lamb shank in tomato juice and spices, we cook dinner vegetables in the marinade after the lambshank has marinaded and serve the vegetables with dinner.We grill the lambshank, debone, and put the bone back in the tomato marinade and simmer to make a delicious soup.

The woody ends of fresh asparagus make a delicious vegetable broth with coconut milk, and when fresh asparagus tips are added the last minute with garlic croutons, it makes a crunchy tasty soup dinner.

The winter carrots are fresh and beautiful at the moment, they make a great vegetarian dinner with cocconut cream, or dairy cream if preferred. Easily prepared under an hour.

Red onions are our favorites. Frying the onions in butter or olive oil gives the soup its flavor. Frying the peels gives the soup its color. Use a cast iron soup pot or cast iron skillet that you can slide under the oven broiler to roast the sliced bread and cheese on top.

Fresh tender green garden onion shoots beg to get mixed with other fragrant soup ingredients to make a delicious light summer dinner broth. Served with fresh beansprouts and kimchi pickled cabbage on the side.

Smoked onion soup is a light meal with a strong flavor and brown color without butter, without beef broth, without slices of cheese or fried eggs, so the broth is not fatty at all.French onion soup is a heavy meal with a mild flavor, it gets its flavor and color from carmelizing the onion in a pan with butter, and from beef broth, bread, fried egg, and lots of cheese.I make four pints of smoked onion soup broth at a time, keep the onions and the broth in pint containers in the fridge or freezer and pour one in a cast iron soup bowl with lid when ready to serve. I top it with fresh french bread, a poached egg,crumbs of smoked cheese, and a wedge of lime, ready in ten minutes at 450F degrees.

The leftover bones from a lamb roast or lamb ribs or lamb chops make a delicious and fragrant dinner soup in 3 hours with this simple recipe.

Aqua Faba means bean water and is the nourishing thick broth from soaking and cooking dried garbanzo and other beans. It is often thrown away because the foam on top has a bitter taste. We skim the bitter foam off and use the broth, it tastes mild like egg whites in egg drop soups.There is also a fava bean called Aqua Dulce, which is not bitter when soaked and cooked, that can be used with or instead of garbanzo beans.We mixed both beans to make a hearty bean soup dinner served over croutons with poached egg yokes, spiced with harissa sauce and other spices, served with side dishes of pickled cucumber, pickled onions, pickled olives, pickles sweet peppers and chopped cilantro and green onions.If you prefer vegan, you whisk the aqua faba broth till it develops white strings, like eggwhites, use in this soup instead of eggs.#GlobalApron