A Season of Super Soup: Tot-Friendly Veggie Soup (week 4)

A toddler + soup = a huge mess.  Usually, when introducing soup to a tot or small child (or even a preteen) it is best to make sure the bowl is 2/3 of the way full of "stuff" (meat, noodles, veggies) and 1/3 of the way full with liquid.  What happens most of the time is that Sam and I are left with bowls of broth with one sad carrot floating around and the kids have bowls of the good stuff.

Fuck that.  I want some noodles, too.

I present to you:  Tot Friendly Vegetable Soup.  Light on the spices, heavy on nutrients, and mostly comprised of the "good stuff."  Add in a buttermilk biscuit on the side and this is the perfect family friendly meal to welcome fall.  Hope and Sam didn't even know I snuck in turnips; when the turnips are peeled and chopped they looked just like taters.  Mwhahahahahahahaha! 

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons of butter
1/2 cup diced carrots
1 cup diced onion
5 cups hot chicken stock
1 cup hot water
1 cup diced, peeled turnip
1 cup diced, peeled potato
1 cup tomato, seeded and diced
1 cup uncooked alphabet noodles
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1 teaspoon of salt
1/4 teaspoon of pepper
1 cup chopped spinach or cabbage

Directions:

Heat butter in a large saucepan. Add onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, and turnips and cook on medium heat until slightly softened. Then add your broth, tomatoes, noodles, parsley, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil on medium heat.  Lower the temperature, cover, and simmer for 35 minutes. Then add your cup of spinach or cabbage. Cook about 5 minutes more. Add parsley, salt, and pepper to taste if you wish.

Sam added a bit of hot sauce to his bowl and really loved it.  Atticus and Hope both ate the soup without complaints so that is certainly a win!  Overall, I thought the soup not flavorful enough.  However, I'm the person digging curried soups that no one else will touch.  I guess it is all about perspective. 

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Week 3 -- Split Pea Soup
Week 2 -- Curried Butternut Squash Soup
Week 1 -- Chicken Stock