Theresa's Mixed Nuts: Double Up on Turnip and Apple Soup

Friday, January 6, 2023

Double Up on Turnip and Apple Soup

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My daughter often expresses her displeasure that we are an "ingredient" household, not a "food" household. Despite my best efforts to always have her helping in the kitchen as she was growing up, she still has a fondness for convenience (read, unhealthy) foods. For someone who rambles on and on about wanting a huge garden of her own, it doesn't make sense to me lol. I get it. We're all so busy these days. Both parents working, kids bogged down with school and extracurricular activities, everyone trying to stay on top of the rat race. Grabbing a bag of chicken nuggets or pizza rolls from the freezer or a can of soup from the cupboard is a way to get bellies filled quickly, but usually these foods are subpar tasting to their homemade counterparts and will negatively impact health in the long run. Because of this, I've become a huge fan of making meals in bulk quantities. In the summer months Jason will smoke pork belly in large quantities to eat plain or for pulled pork sandwiches, and in the winter, I like to double my soup and stew recipes for a quick reheat meal that's filling and nourishing to the body. After a nice little warm spell here in the Midwest, we're back to sleet and gloom, so it's been the perfect time to batch make soup. In addition to chili and beef stew, I used the rest of the turnips I had left over from last week's Golden Blossom Honey post to make their Turnip and Apple Soup this week.     
 
 
Soup is one of those foods that I have never liked from a can. Maybe it's all of the sodium or maybe it's all of the preservatives, but when it comes to soup, only homemade will do for me. With just a teensy bit of effort, it's one of those dishes that you can make in bulk and freeze for quick and easy meal ideas for the days when frozen fish sticks are the only other option you have to get everyone fed after a long, exhausting day. This recipe is relatively fast to get on the table without a lot of cook time. If you invest in a decent veggie chopper, half the battle of prep here is already won. Turnips don't have a lot of flavor, I think, but the apples and honey are the stars of the show in this recipe. However, the turnips tone down the sweetness and balance everything out beautifully. I personally prefer a chunky soup, so the next time I make this I'll puree only half of the mixture. This round I added croutons and chopped green onion stems which added a fantastic texture to the soup. But if smooth soup is your thing, absolutely don't change a thing here. Jason, who is a meat and potatoes man through and through, even went back for a second helping. I was glad that I doubled the recipe because we'll still get another meal out of this batch even with him inevitably going back for seconds again next time. 

Ingredients

3/4 cup onion, finely chopped
2 Tablespoons butter
2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped
6 medium white turnips, peeled and chopped
4 cups chicken broth
1/2 cup half & half
3 Tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY
salt and pepper to taste
 
 


  

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22 comments:

  1. If that means cooking on the ingredients you have, than we have always been that as well. You have really stashed up on turnip this winter LOL And you decorated that soup really lovely in the first pics, not that I would eat that apple but it looks perdy!
    We are not a freezing food nation, so I never did that, but I never had to feed a pack of kids and husbands LOL

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    1. Freezing and canning are becoming a thing I’d the past here. I’ll be looking for land that we can start a homestead on at some point, but it will just be me and Jason to feed by then. I’m sure I’ll end up donating a lot of what we grow, but I’d like to be able to grow and preserve most of the food we eat in the future. Farming is dying here in the states and I do not want to have to rely on our government or another nation’s government to feed me.

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  2. I’m not certain I’ve ever eaten a turnip. I’ll have to check its oxolate level. I honestly don’t like leftovers, so I rarely cook extra. Usually, its just my homemade pasta sauce that I make a lot of.

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    1. Some things I think taste better as leftovers. Chili and soup for sure. Jason loves meatloaf more on day 2.

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  3. So true. Soup from a can is rarely any good.

    Happy New Year!

    Blue

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  4. I just started eating turnips again. This sounds interesting.

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  5. Yeah. It is easier to eat the crap and faster too, but not ingesting all the preservatives and other garbage in it is a big win in the long run. Homemade is the better way all the way.

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    1. People don’t realize they’re slowly making themselves sick with all of that easy processed food. And then complain then they do get ill. A few extra minutes in the kitchen would make such a big difference in health in the long run.

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  6. Soup is one of my most favorite dishes in the world. This one is so unique. I am 100% positive it will get ooh's and ahh's from my grown kids (probably not the teen who is in the 'eat fast if mom lets me phase' too. Pinning it.

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    1. Teens lol. I admit, I was one of those fast eaters too until I had kids. Funny how our habits change as we get older and wiser.

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  7. Gracias por la receta te mando un beso.

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  8. 100% ingredient kitchen here. Which isn't always easy if nothing is ready.

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  9. I'm so interested in the combination of turnips and apples! And it's definitely soup season where I live, so bring it on!

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  10. I usually don't freeze anything

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    1. That’s ok. I don’t freeze as much as I used to.

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  11. Yum. Regine
    www.rsrue.blogspot.com

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