Ya Never Know What's In The Fridge

One day last week, I had a whole bunch of tomatoes from the little vines here at the house. Some had spots on 'em and didn't look all that great, so I decided I'd give 'em the ol' hot boil and peel deal; then cook 'em down a bit before freezing 'em.

Once I got finished with the tomatoes, I recalled that I had a large piece of eye round roast that I was using for sandwiches. It had gotten to the point where it needed to be used for something else (if ya know whatta mean!). Being the smart rascal that I can sometimes be, it occurred to me that a pot of vegetable soup might be just the thing for the cooler weather that was on the way.

I let the ol' maters keep cooking away while I cubed the beef and added it. Then I chopped a medium onion, some celery and some carrots. Soup was starting to look pretty good, but still needed some more veggies. I found 2 ears of cooked corn in the fridge, so I cut the kernels off the cobb and added it to the soup.

I was still missing something. I rooted thru the fridge again and came across this jar that was still half full of delicious Paisley Farm Four Bean Salad that I had bought on one of my many trips to Costco. This stuff is really good when served chilled, kind of a sweet-pickle type flavor. It had light green beans, dark green beans, red kidney beans and garbanzo-type beans along with some onion and other stuff.

I drained the pickle juice from the jar and added the remaining salad to the soup. That was a first for me. Man, that was some really good looking soup after I added the four bean stuff. I added the requisite seasonings for beef, tomato vegetable soup, which I won't divulge here as it's my own little secret. :-)

I'm the only one eating on that pot of soup, but man you talk about something delicious. That pickle flavor in those beans really set it off. I think I've probably gained a couple of pounds just from eating soup (and maybe some excellent vanilla ice cream) this week. Next time I visit Costco I'm gonna get a couple more jars of that superb soup fixin' four bean salad.

JD