Alternative Energy and Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup

Alternative Energy and Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup

I design and produce alternative fuel for a living and a passion. Most of my day is spent in the lab trying to find new ways and perfecting the technologies I have invented. Most of the time, I am dealing with alternative fuel politics rather than technology. I find this exceedingly frustrating so I play with this blog, seems to help. Alternative fuels are a good idea whose time is coming the down side, should we turn food (corn and soybeans) into fuel? No, we should not, we need to develop and plant crops that will produce technical oil rather than food. The technology and plants already exist but the question is who will control them and make the big bucks. Big guys want to own them all and the idealist wants them available to the masses and so the positioning goes on and on with very little headway. These alternative fuels should have been on the markets decades ago. My first fuel was registered with the EPA in July 1994, still out there trying to impact the markets. Eventually we will have to have alternatives will they be from corn or soybeans probably not in fact we probably won’t be using combustion at all, but that’s another story…

 

Vegetable Soup Recipe

 Ingredients

·        4 to 5lbs. of cubed beef stew meat (Irregular sizes include some fat content for taste) (Add more if you want a beefier soup)

·        3 large cubed potatoes

·        1 14 ounce bag frozen green beans

·        1 14 ounce bag frozen whole kernel corn

·        1 14 ounce bag frozen sweet peas

·        1/2 head green cabbage

·        2 cans stewed tomatoes with liquid (torn apart)

·        2 yellow onions, quartered and sliced

·        3-4 tbsp tomato paste

·        2 tsp sugar

·        2 quarts. tomato juice (in glass not cans)

·        1 tsp. of fresh parsley or cilantro

·        1/2 tsp. of dried oregano

·        1/2 tsp. of dried basil

·        1 tsp. of dried thyme

·        1/2 tsp. of dried tarragon

·        Salt to taste (use sea salt or kosher salt)

·        Ground black pepper to taste (peppermill)

·        1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

·        Olive oil

·        3-4 bay leaves (always count your bay leaves remove before serving)

·        Pickapepper sauce to taste (optional found around the A-1 sauce type products in the grocery store)

 Directions

1       Beef cubes put into a steel mixing bowl.

2       Add Worcestershire sauce to beef cubes. Sprinkle salt and pepper on beef.

3       Heat frying pan to very hot and add olive oil immediately add beef cubes. Brown beef quickly on all sides and remove to soup pot.

4       Add tomato juice, frozen veggies, beans, tomatoes, onions, cabbage, sugar and bay leaves. Stir in tomato paste.

5       Bring to a boil then put on a medium heat for 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

6       I add a couple dashes of hot sauce to spice it up a little. (Optional. but preferred)

7       Serve hot with rolls.

8       Stir and cover for about 2-3 hrs.

9       Ladle up and serve.

 

 

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