"The Ultimate Vegetarian Cookbook" & Bean
Bean loved her vegetables! She always had a pot of homemade soup bubbling away on the stove top. Every week like clockwork she'd pull out her big soup pot and concoct a soup, usually vegetable, with whatever needed using up or was left over. Nothing would ever go to waste. If she had a quantity of fresh corn it would become corn chowder, creamy and thickened I with potatoes. Rich multi bean, deeply caramelized French Onion, thick potato cheese, just-picked tasting Cream of Asparagus, or velvety butternut squash. Her favorite though had to be a good hearty minestrone filled with beans, zucchini, tomatoes and whatever else she felt inspired to throw in. In fact, I don't remember a day that she didn't have a mug of soup for breakfast, especially in her later years, it was her comfort food. She'd always put in a pat of butter and plenty of fresh cracked black pepper. Raised on a farm she grew up on fresh vegetables and growing up during WWII she knew first ha