| Cabbage soup recipes are just what you need for | | | | In a stock pot add: |
| quick and inexpensive fall and winter meals. Cabbage | | | | - 2 quarts chicken broth |
| is a staple in the diet of many people around the world. | | | | - 1 minced onion |
| Just because it's common doesn't mean it isn't good. | | | | - 2 minced garlic cloves |
| And it doesn't have to be bland and smelly either. It is a | | | | - 2 diced sweet potatoes (peeled) |
| great dish when properly prepared. | | | | - 1 grated small head cabbage |
| One great way to use cabbage is in soup. Soup of | | | | - 2 chopped celery stalks |
| any kind is filling and can be a low calorie part of a | | | | Bring to a boil and then simmer 15 minutes. |
| meal too. Cabbage soup is even the main part of a | | | | Salt and pepper to taste. Have Tabasco sauce at the |
| diet plan called the cabbage soup diet. With this diet | | | | table. |
| you eat all the cabbage soup you want and then you | | | | Top with sour cream if that's on your diet. |
| have just certain foods to eat during each of seven | | | | Make chicken broth when you have chicken the next |
| days. The claim is that you should lose ten pounds in | | | | time. Cover leftover chicken bones with water. Bring to |
| seven days. I've done the diet and it does work. But | | | | a boil and then lower heat and simmer for four hours. |
| cabbage soup isn't just for diets. | | | | Remove bones. Then refrigerate broth. |
| It's cold where I live now and a pot of good soup is | | | | This is thrifty peasant eating at it's best. Make up your |
| hard to beat. Here's the recipe my favorite cook just | | | | own cabbage soup recipe using these general |
| put together last week. I tested the product and it was | | | | proportions. Of course you could substitute carrots for |
| mouth watering good. | | | | sweet potatoes. Make substitutions like that and make |
| Kathy's Fast Cabbage Soup | | | | your own recipe. |