Vegetable Soup Recipe. Tips?

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I don't much care for the broccoli flower heads. I generally pig out on the stems... raw... they rarely make it into a recipe.
Often, when I have broccoli, I peel the stems and cut them into coins for salads. The are really lovely in salads or just for munching raw. Cauliflower stems are good that way too. They are similar to raw kohlrabi. Those all might turn up when I put out a plate of crudités.
 
I eat broccoli, stems and trees, for the nutrition. My family (kids are adults and hubs is..an..nevermind , gotta love 'em) do not care for the broccoli familyish, in soups, that would include cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, kales, collards, beet or beet greens. Same for veggie broth, none of the above. So, when I use broccoli types, it's not usually very much in soups or stews. It has an odor; they don't like in cooked soups. I on the other hand drink down kale/apple/orange smoothies and eat broccoli by the bowl full, daily with my regular meals, as a way to stay healthy and fighting off whatever it is I'm suffering from, more recently. We still don't know what it is.

Instead we use potatoes, carrots, onions, zucchini, squash yellow or winter, sweet potatoes, tomato or tomato sauce, peppers the sweet type, in all forms and colors, then also the legumes and lentils, seeds and grains whole mostly, and rarely nuts.
It might be thickened with cooked or uncooked flour, or ground up lentils/legumes/seeds/veggies, in some combination, and spices added during or after cooking.
 
Bliss, I am with you on the smell of brassicas in anything where they get cooked a lot. The only way I like kale is actually in soup, but I put it in for the last 10-15 minutes of cooking the soup. I try to cut it up to no bigger than 1"x2" pieces.

The dish with brassica that I really can't stand is cabbage rolls. I can't even sit in the same room with those. The smell makes me nauseous. However, that may have to do with an interaction between the cabbage and the tomato sauce. I used to enjoy my farmor's (Scandinavian for father's mother) cabbage rolls. They are made with no tomato.
 

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