Beer and yogurt and peanut butter and tortilla chip crumb soup.
 
Delicious full bodied and hearty soup we all grew up on, 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
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.
 
We 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.
 
Note on the yogurt and beans...
 
You are being short changed both in quality and economics if you don't sprout your own grains and make your own yogurt. Probiotic benefit of the yogurt is lost in the cooking however.
 
Will reveal the sublime, deep dark secrets of sprouting and probiotic cultivation soon for the prosperity, health and benefit of all.
 
John

This seems like useful information, so does it belong in the Coffee House??? 

wow thanks John but where's the Becan?

this convinces me to make Becan stir fry!

Good point because it is useful, and thus probably does not belong here.
 
Unfortunately, no becan in the soup design.
 
We follow the vegetarian and even more restrictive diet of the hell bound heathen Hare Krishnas. I ain't no way one of them because they are crazy as crazy gets, but no meat, no fish, no eggs, no onion, no garlic, no mushrooms and some other goodies to avoid. Makes sense in regards of what goes in and comes out of the human body and the effect it has while we struggle to eliminate the toxins.. Pack of bloody heathens, but they knew more than any of us crawling into a McDonalds to feast on death and feed the worms in our intestines.
 
Only higher road over the Hare Krishna guys is what my buddy Jesus tried to tell us carbon infestations about raw diet in the Essene texts. His advice there is the end point and ultimate truth about everything dietary. Can send links if above the radar.
 
My weakness is being addicted to the maladaptive cooking process like most of us are.
 
The first flame kills off all life energy of a dietary intake. The nuked product maybe enough to sustain life, but not health. Think about a can of green beans on the shelf for a couple years versus what you have just harvested out of your garden.
 
Still want to give some radical info on sprouting and probiotic cultivation that you can take to the bank and back.
 
John

 

Hilarious.
 
Reminds me of my favorite Pink Panther airplane outtakes.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBk_3VgfTmk

Looks like I've missed the remakes!  I've only seen the Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers.

craigb
This seems like useful information, so does it belong in the Coffee House??? 

Maybe he's trying to get us all to lose some weight ... hmmmm ... not into cooking anymore, though!

Weight loss is a good thing. Had to force off about 45 pounds and get slim. Bummer is that for decades it has been a struggle to keep it off. Half a million years ago, there was no such thing as a fat person, who survived anyway.
 
About sprouting. Think I was going to add something about sprouting and probiotic culture. Have been doing this for 40 years and so can give some really cool information that works. Cheap thrills with a significant payoff.
 
Like ol’ Jesus said in the Essene documents on live food, any element that you would feel uncomfortable on your body inflicts the same damage on the food you eat and degrades the curative power in measure. Life energy is killed off from cooking, freezing, dehydrated storage. Nutritional elements, many of are still there, enough to keep you living, but not to support energy and rebirth.
 
Any of you biology or medical jocks out there may have studied the fragile energy state of sun energized chlorophyll, the transfer of the hi power light charge down the energy gradient and the similarity between chlorophyll and hemoglobin. If we don’t capture the transfer from the sun ripe fresh state, might as well eat dirt.
 
JC recommended raw food and sprouting. Easy, fun, healthy and big economic advantage.
 
You go into a grocery store to the dried beans isle and they got all the dried grains in bags. The are actually all alive if they haven’t been split or hulled. Examples, white rice is dead but brown rice is alive. Split peas are dead but whole peas are alive. Good cheap source for sproutable grains is if you got a swami guru type whole foods coop in the area. Otherwise, Safeway or Walmart is a good start.
 
Anything can be sprouted but avoid anything in the nightshade family like potatoes, tomato seeds, green pepper seeds etc. You will kill yourself. Most anything else in our normal diet is fair game.
 
What you need to get started are a few cheap hardware items.
 
Wife is pulling me off to fix something. Will get back with more details.
 
John