Mixed Veggie Cream Soup
"Here's another recipe from my best friend. She's the quintessential farm wife and she's always been something of an inspiration to me -- in the cooking department as well as many other areas. I don't know if this is a recipe she thought up herself or if it's from one of her recipe books, but I always credit her with this one."
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
7 cups
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup diced carrot
- 3⁄4 cup diced potato
- 1⁄2 cup cooked ham, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup peas
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 1⁄4 teaspoons salt (or more, to taste)
- 1 dash pepper
- 2 cups water (broth definitely adds more flavour!) or 2 cups ham stock (broth definitely adds more flavour!)
- 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
- 3 1⁄2 tablespoons flour
- 2 1⁄2 cups milk
directions
- Cook all veggies except peas in water or broth until tender.
- In a separate pot, melt butter and stir in flour to form paste. Gradually add milk and cook until thickened, stirring constantly.
- Add cooked veggies AND broth along with peas and ham. Heat through and serve.
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<p>I live in beautiful western Manitoba, Canada. I'm a wife and stay-at-home mom with 2 daughters, Peanut (who turned 7 at the end of January) and Fidget (who will turn 5 in the middle of June) and a husband whom I call The Bushman, who's motto, lucky for me, is I'll try anything once! I'm a Mennonite by heritage as well as faith. I'm a born again Christian and we belong to a small Evangelical Mennonite country church where The Bushman and I are fairly involved. The church is made up largely of family groups -- most are related somehow. That's actually a Mennonite pastime, finding out how everyone's related to each other. If we're not directly related, we'll find a connection somehow -- your third cousin's wife's brother is for SURE my mother's father's sister-in-law's nephew!! See, isn't it amazing how small this world really is?! For fun, I enjoy photography -- my favourite subjects are sunsets, cloud formations, my girls, and nature close-ups -- reading, (John Grisham, Frederick Forsythe, Robert Ludlum, and Clive Cussler are my favourite authors), playing piano, and going for nice long walks, either first thing in the morning or towards sunset. I've even learned to enjoy it in the dead of winter, when I have no choice but to walk in semi-darkness. For those of you who've never experienced a Manitoba winter (lucky you!), 'the dead of winter' includes pretty much all of December, January, and February!! And up here, our shortest days of the year have only 7 hours of daylight, so if it's cloudy, well, it feels like no daylight at all! It's my favourite time to plan my day, pray, and daydream about what might happen if I'd ever actually buy a lottery ticket and win!! I love cooking -- baking not so much (mostly because it's not essential to survival and if there's baking in the house, that's all we eat!!) -- and reading recipe books is a favourite pastime of mine. I love the Company's Coming series of cookbooks, but my favourite is Taste of Home magazine. Since buying a premium membership here though, I've decided to let my subscription run out. I'll miss it, but I've decided there's really no need for it, since all the best recipes in the world eventually end up here!!</p>
