{"id":10,"date":"2009-04-13T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdg.net\/catchatarian\/?p=10"},"modified":"2009-04-13T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T18:45:13","slug":"cabbage-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/cabbage-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabbage Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, you&#8217;re thinking to yourself, &#8220;Wait, cabbage soup? Isn&#8217;t that something you only eat if you are morbidly obese and getting ready for heart surgery?&#8221; &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it a weird soup that you just tolerate for a few days when you&#8217;re trying to lose weight?&#8221; &#8220;Even if it&#8217;s not just a weird soup you scarf down on a crazy diet, doesn&#8217;t it make you extremely, well, &#8216;musical?&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes, the last time I made the soup I was hoping to lose a little weight, but I am also trying to embark on a new way of eating. Instead of focusing on all the things I SHOULDN&#8217;T eat, I&#8217;m trying to eat all the things you SHOULD eat. Vegetables are good sources of many essential vitamins and minerals, low in fat, and high in dietary fiber and complex carbohydrates. Most people don&#8217;t eat nearly enough of them. For me personally, it seems like it is hard to eat enough fiber.<\/p>\n<p>So I made the crazy soup, expecting to try to choke it down for a few days and maybe lose a few pounds. But do you know what happened? I found that I REALLY LIKE THE SOUP!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Cabbage  Soup Recipe<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">6 large  green onions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">1 or 2  cans of stewed tomatoes <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">3 carrots<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">1\/2 sweet onion<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">half a  head of cabbage <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">1 package Knorr&#8217;s vegetable soup mix <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">1 or 2  cubes of vegetable bouillon (optional) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Season  to taste with cayenne pepper, salt, pepper, parsley, curry, garlic powder, etc. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also add<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">1 cup mushrooms <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">2 green  peppers <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">2 stalks celery <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">frozen or canned peas<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>or any other vegetable that tickles your fancy. I like to keep mine really simple.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Slice green  onions, put in a pot and start to saute with cooking spray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Take the  outer leafs layers off the cabbage, cut into 1-2 inch squares, add to  pot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Clean carrots,  cut into 1\/2 inch slices, and add to pot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">If you  like spicy soup (I do), add about 2 teaspoons of cayenne pepper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">You can use veggie bouillon cubes for seasonings. These have all the salt  and flavors you will need. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Use about 6 cups of water, and put heat on low.  Let soup cook for an hour or more. Season to taste  with salt and pepper (I have never had to add salt to this soup, so make sure you taste it first).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This soup is also really good with elk stew meat added or with leftover elk steak thrown in at the last minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, you&#8217;re thinking to yourself, &#8220;Wait, cabbage soup? Isn&#8217;t that something you only eat if you are morbidly obese and getting ready for heart surgery?&#8221; &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it a weird soup that you just tolerate &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-soups-and-stews","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdg.net\/catchatarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}