Beer and yogurt and peanut butter and tortilla chip crumb soup.
 
Delicious full bodied and hearty soup just like grandma used to make!!
 
Cheap thrills right out of the Walmart food section.
 
Best made in a traditional gallon size crock pot.
 
Combine 2 or 3 bags of assorted frozen vegetables, 2 or 3 cans cooked beans if you don’t go the higher road and sprout your own first.
 
Add the following:
 
One can tomato paste
1/3 cup chunky peanut butter (real stuff like Adam’s, not the Jiff or Skippy crap)
3 tablespoons plain yogurt
1/2 can beer (use the American pale variety. Pabst the beer of choice)
4 tablespoons applesauce
1 cup tortilla chip crumbs
2 teaspoons raw apple cider vinegar
Heaping teaspoon curry powder
Heaping teaspoon mild chili pepper
Heaping teaspoon oregano
Heaping teaspoon Basil
1 to 2 heaping teaspoons grated fresh ginger
Level teaspoon turmeric powder
¼ cup salted sunflower seeds, or mixed nuts.
 
Grate or chop and fresh vegetables needed to fill the crock pot to 1 inch below the top.
 
Add water to then just barely cover the mix.
 
Salt to taste. Stir in the salt and test taste again for adjustment.
 
Let the crock pot fire away on hi for several hours until you can smell the soup. Stir occasionally to keep the cooking heat circulating. Crock pots have hot spots. By the time the scent of the soup pervades the house, it can be eaten, but more cooking time is usually needed.
 
Now to reveal the greatest cooking secret for soups…
 
When about cooked, remove 3 cups or more of the solid parts and blend them in a food blender. Pour the blended contents back into the crock pot. This thickens the consistency in a nice way.
 
After putting the blended part back in, let the soup cook again for awhile, stirring now and then.
 
Transfer the soup to half quart mason jars, letting them cool to room temperature and then refrigerate. Will last for months until needed. The gallon crock pot makes for 5 mason jars and then enough for a meal or two left.
 
John
 

Do you add the yogurt last, or do you torch and scorch it in the crock all day?
 
Very interesting and worth a try. Could I replace the pabst with Guinness?

The headline suggested something truly awful to me, but having seen the full recipe I can imagine it being something of a surprise (in a good way). Too much effort for this kitchen lazybones, but I'd give it a try it if someone else made it.

Yogurt goes in the mix with everything else at the beginning, and you could try Guinness. Ideally something light that won't stand out. Ingredients not entirely normal for soup, but achieves a unique balance that gets 5 stars.
 
The result is quite good and it does take some time to put together, but for an occasional stirring, it is maintenance free once everything is mixed. The time savings comes on the back end of the project because it can be stored for many meals in Mason jars that just require heating.
 
John

A healthy smile with your tongue stuck to the roof of your mouth
 
wait ..what was the question?

not unless you go too heavy on the peanut butter...

Interesting

Okay Mr JohnKenn. I gave this a go and with three hungry kids to feed and a hard working husband you recipe was a hit. We do not take beer or alcohol in any form. I used water for the half cup replacement for beer. I assume that the alcohol content is flashed off in the cooking leaving only the essence of the beer. Your recipe worked well without the alcohol addition.
One curious observation in the recipe is the absence of a predicted overload of onion and garlic and meat in what looks like a vegetarian attempt without polluting our being with further poisons of plant origin.
This on the surface may be healthy but any living essence is destroyed by heat. Benefits of the yogurt and fresh vegetables are lost in your approach. Otherwise this is a great and original mix to nourish us as we live out our 4 score and ten.

Jyotishvarii,
 
Thank you for your Informed feedback. You nailed the issue to the truth and sorry for my lapses in the thing about freshness.
Onion and garlic, meat, eggs, mushrooms were excluded from the recipe because they are toxic and promote accelerated deterioration unto death against the physical structure of those consuming these elements. Poison to the cells and of no benefit unless remotely medically necessary for a short time. Bad breath a minor inconvenience to your friends.
 
The alcohol content of the soup is evaporated out by the time it is ready to be canned, so you won't get drunk on a bowl of soup. You could have used beer.
 
Your point about freshness is critical and didn't want to do a heathen tirade about it, but you are 110 percent correct.
 
Did not want to sow discord or initiate an uninformed flame attack, but the western humanoid carbon life form could do well to look at the Essene doctrines by my bro Jesus. Cool dude. Like the old song says, "Jesus is just alright with me". Cool dude.
 
In the Essene texts banned from the bible in the 4th century, my bro Jesus said that anything that presents negative stimulus on you body likewise does equal harm to that which you eat. Meaning that vital energy is killed as a dietary source if removed from the sun source. Simple as that.
 
Cook it and it is dead. Will support life but not health. Wish I could walk my own talk. Thank you Jyoti for the reminder.
 
John
 
 
 

Interesting again. In my study of naturopathy the 4 books of the Essenes were required reading for historical significance and as an example of what early Christians were taught as common sense observances for health and longevity  Book 4 was the cake icing and a major reason why even reading them was cause for the death penalty by stoning  The translations were set up by the Biogenic society with a grant to never charge more than one dollar per book so all could have access  This has fallen apart with capital greed but there may be a free website to download the texts.
 
Mr JohnKenn, do you have any more recipes? Your beer soup was excellent even without the beer.