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a spicy vegetable soup


"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne

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A Spicy Vegetable Soup

Ingredients:
3 ears of corn [remove corn from cobs]
3 medium sized carrots, cut in 1/4 inch pieces
2 and 1/2 pounds fresh tomatoes, chopped and cored
2 medium sized potatoes, peeled and cubed
2 small onions, chopped
1 and 1/2 cups okra, cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 cup lima beans
1 teeny tiny little jalepeno pepper, minced
2 tablespoons salt

wrap these spices in a small piece of cheesecloth:
25 whole peppercorns
12 whole cloves
1/2 teaspoon thyme leaves
1/2 teaspoon marjarom leaves

Instructions:
1) Use a small piece of cheese cloth to tie up the peppercorns, cloves, thyme, and marjoram.
2) Put all the ingredients [includin' the spices wrapped in cheese cloth] in a soup kettle and add water 'til it just covers everything.
3) Let the soup get just shy of boilin' over medium high heat.
4) Turn the heat down real low and simmer, uncovered, for as many hours as it takes 'til the vegetables are of the texture you like best.
5) Remove the spices wrapped in cheese cloth prior to servin'.
Yield: aproximately 1 gallon of soup

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