Beef and Rice Soup + Popular Pumpkin!
W00t!!! My Pumpkin Ice Cream Recipe made it to the home page of Open Source Food! It's become a Recently Popular Recipe from getting a lot of votes from members of OSF. I'm glad I used that beautiful wooden bunny bowl to photograph my pumpkin ice cream in. It really brings that warm autumn harvest moon look to an otherwise sort of plain-looking ice cream scoop.Inspired by all this attention, I posted another recipe on OSF, my Beef and Rice Soup. I'm not super duper done with it yet, need to tweak it a bit, maybe a different cut of beef, starting it from scratch boiling beef bones to make broth.
Nevertheless, I love my Beef and Rice Soup, because it's a meal on its own. Soups are so much work, and I don't see myself making soup and then making entrees after that. Soup-meals are an easier way to get nutrition and hydration into my family in one easy meal.
Beef and Rice Soup
Ingredients:
2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
3 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
3 medium celery stalks, chopped
1 cup broccoli stalks, chopped
1 tsp ginger powder
1/2 lb beef, sliced (I used a part called the onglet - very tender!)
1 cup rice
3 cups beef broth
a handful of shiitake mushrooms, chopped
1 bokchoy, separated into stalks
salt and pepper
1. Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan.
2. Toss in carrots, celery, broccoli stalks and ginger powder. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
3. Add beef and brown it.
4. Add rice and broth. Add enough water to immerse all ingredients fully.
5. When the rice is cooked, add shiitake mushrooms and bok choy.
6. Salt and pepper to taste.