Maja’s Kitchen Newsletter ………..January, 2015 !
Black Bean Soup!
Winter is “Soup Time” in Maja’s Kitchen, therefore, I want to start my Blog Post for the New Year with my very first soup for this year. It is the Black Bean Soup that everyone loved when it was on the menu in one of my cooking classes.
The soup is easy to make and it takes hardly any time at all to prepare. You do not need a crock pot, just a regular soup pot and a few ingredients to make it.
I love these kind of recipes when I can bring everything together on my counter, chop the vegetables, wash the beans after they come out of the can, add the spices and the rest of the ingredients and place them into the waiting pot on the stove.
When all the ingredients are in the soup pot turn on the heat, and let it all boil up for a few minutes and the soup is ready in half an hour or less.
Serve it with some toasted, buttered bread and dinner is done! I love a small cup of apple sauce after the meal to cleanse my palate.
By the way…..make a double recipe……because this soup is great to keep in the freezer for another meals later on.
Cleaning up the kitchen is quickly done as well …and you can relax with a book on the couch….or…. with a favorite TV Show….
Black Bean Soup..
my quick method!
Makes about 6 to 8 servings!
4 cans –15.5 oz each – Goya, Black Beans
Rinse the beans with warm water before you continue with the recipe.
1 large onion – diced and caramelized in a little olive oil.
1 stalk celery, chopped
1 carrot, grated or sliced
4 cloves garlic – pressed or chopped
Pepper – to taste
2 Tbsp tomato paste – (puree)
4-6 cups Chicken Stock – or less, depending on the amount of soup you want.
1lb Polish Sausage – cooked and diced.
1 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
1 Tbsp sugar
2 – 3 Tbsp chopped parsley
Garnish with sour cream and 5 or 6 chopped green onions or parsley.
Place the rinsed beans into a soup pot and …………
add the chicken stock
Add sauteed onions, celery, carrot, garlic and tomato paste.
Cook until vegetables are just tender.
Add sugar and vinegar.
Adjust taste with salt and pepper.
Add cooked Polish Sausage and serve with sour cream and green onions.
To thicken soup – take out a cup or more from the pot –
and smash the beans with a potato masher.
Return the smashed beans to the pot to thicken the soup.
Or………use Potato Spuds from the box,
Add the Spuds to the pot and bring it up to a quick boil for about a minute.
Add 1 Tbsp at a time and thicken the soup
until it has the thickness you like.
This recipe can be doubled or quadrupled.
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Hi there! I want to compliment you on this new format. I can always read the details and fun comments online, but to have the concise recipe and a few pictures altogether is so nice. I can here just print pages 3-5. Hope to see you both one of these days. We still have a daughter in Washington – working and going to Georgetown Law School – at night at age 46. We are so proud of her. Our youngest son was married near Szczecin, Poland last summer, and they are expecting this spring- so we NEED to get to UK where they live. Bob has just come thru a bout of demo for bladder cancer; and our 52 year old son, who has been a wildfire air tanker pilot for the last 20 years, just went thru prostate caner surgery and radiation – an still fighting the horrid disease. Usually in the spring I am invited to come to Laurel, MD for some skating volunteer things; hope to be able to make time to see you both sometime.Wishing you and your family Happy New Year! Barbie and Bob Holland
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:20:01 +0000 To: woodenshu@msn.com
Hi Barb…so good to hear from you….I am sorry to hear about Bob and your son’s medical problems…hope they will both be healed soon….I can see that your are very proud of your daughter…and I am sure you will see her when you come to Laurel, MD this spring….and hope we can see you as well….Let us know when you will be here …and we can come wherever you are and take you to lunch….we would really love seeing you!!! Dale is now retired…so ….unless we have an urgent apt…we are free…to meet you…hope it will work out…
Lots of love to you and Bob….
Thanks – looks like a good bean soup.
Thank you for your nice comment…Judith…so nice of you to drop me a note….big hug to you…
Great – Maja’s kitchen is up and cooking again! A hearty, warm soup is just what we need in this bone chilling cold.
What about participating in Sugarprincess Yushka’s blog event “Calendar of Cakes”? Deine Torten sind doch sooo schön! http://sugarprincess-juschka.blogspot.de/2015/01/calendar-of-cakes-jahres-event-auf.html
LG, Karin
Hi Karin…thank you for your nice note….always love hearing from you….
About the Sugarprincess….I looked through her website…and really love what she does…but all her guests enter German posts….my German fails when it comes to technical expressions in the recipes…therefore, I do not know if she would accept my cake blog posts…Maybe I need to write her…??
Big hug to you….and am glad you are not ankle deep in snow this time around….
Hi Maria: This recipe looks like just the ticket for a winter weekend of snow; shopping for the ingredients today aft. work! Painting again and lovin’ it. God bless you, S
Shirley…so nice to see you here…..hope your soup turned out and everyone loved it….I am happy to hear you are painting again….so very, very happy about it….big hugs to you…