elaine’s old fashioned vegetable beef soup

Ingredients For elaine’s old fashioned vegetable beef soup

• 1 lb

  ground beef (or ground turkey)
• 1 c

  chopped onion
• 1 tsp

  chopped garlic, or to taste
• 1 c

  diced raw potato (or ¼ c. barley, softened in 1 c. water for 8 hours or ¼ c. rice, millet, rye or farro)
• 1 c

  sliced carrot
• 1 c

  sliced celery
• 1/2 lb

  green beans, cut diagonally or 2 c. frozen cut beans
• 1 can

  diced tomatoes (28 oz) or 2 lbs. fresh or frozen tomatoes, diced
• 1 c

  canned drained beans (kidney, black, or black eyed peas), optional
• 9 c

  beef bouillon or stock or a combination of stock and water
• 2 tsp

  salt
• 1/4 tsp

  dried thyme
• 1/4 tsp

  dried basil
• 1

  bay leaf
• 1/4 tsp

  ground pepper
• 5 dash

  red pepper sauce, optional
• 1 can

  whole kernel corn (7 oz), undrained (or ½ cup frozen corn)
• 1 (1/2) c

  frozen peas