Life and Cabbage Soup

As always your eyes are bigger than your stomach. I started this Blog last January and made few entries. I will try to do better this year. It has been a year of hope and frustration from the heights of "finally" to the lows of we don't have your money as promised. To the pain of telling the employees/partners that we have been hustled. Maybe it was for the best that it happened now rather than a year down the road and we would have lost LeTI. Onward to bigger and better things.    

Included the picture of the new LeTI / ABR building in the first snow a couple of weeks ago. The new facility has allowed us to do so much more. The new lab was a God send and the location is so much easier to get to. At least we did one right thing this year. Can't believe its a few days till Christmas.

Cabbage Soup Recipe

2 slices of salt pork (ask Butcher)

7 strips bacon thick cut cooked, drained, and crumbled.

1 head cabbage cored, out side leaves discarded, cut into strips about 1 1/2 wide.

1 large carrot

1 large onion

1 tbl spoon minced garlic

1 cup flower

1 small can of tomato juice

In heavy bottomed soup pot add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 stick of butter. Cook Salt pork slowly until thoroughly done remove salt pork and set aside. In grease mixture add onion garlic and pepper cook slowly until onion is translucent. Add flower and cook until there is no free oil in other words the flour has soaked up all of the oil at bottom of pan.

Add 2 large cans of chicken soup broth either homemade or store bought. About 1/2 gallon. Add 1/2 gallon of water Add one small can of tomato juice and sliced cabbage pieces.

Bring to boil stirring occasionally until the creamed consistency is what you want if you want thicker add instant mashed potatoes to thicken.

After boiling add bacon pieces and serve.

Will freeze nicely, reheated slowly.