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Minestrone Recipe Charlotte Today Cooking Segment

September 7, 2016 By Cynthia Ferich

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NBC’s Charlotte Today Cooking Segment VIDEO – Click HERE 

Minestrone!  Or, Minestroneeee as some like to say.  Either way, it is, what I think of as some of summer’s last blessings from the garden, as we reap and gather our last vegetables.  It’s a good ole’ hearty pot of vegetable soup with a little pasta, beans, basil & broth.

This soup recipe, taken from my cookbook, MaMa Mia Cucina, is my grandmother’s recipe that I shared and demonstrated on this fine September day in Charlotte, North Carolina with my friends at NBC / WCNC-TV’s Charlotte Today with Colleen Odegaard and Eugene Robinson. Enjoy!

Minestrone

3 medium carrots, chopped

3 stalks celery, chopped

2 medium sweet onions, peeled and chopped

1 large potato, peeled and chopped

1/4 pound green beans, ends snipped off and chopped

2 medium zucchini, chopped into bite-size pieces

1 head of cabbage, finely chopped

5 fresh medium garlic cloves, peeled and chopped

3 tablespoons butter

1/3 cup olive oil

8 cups beef broth, homemade or canned

2 cups of Italian plum tomatoes, fresh-chopped or canned

1/2 teaspoon dried basil or 1 tablespoon fresh basil

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons sugar

2 cups cannellini beans, canned or dried (cooked)

Beef soup bone (optional)

1/2-pound small pasta, cooked and drained

Freshly grated Parmesan cheese 

Wash and chop all vegetables.  In a large soup pot, heat the butter and olive oil.  Add the garlic, onion, celery and sauté until tender.  Add the soup bone, cabbage, remaining vegetables, liquids, tomatoes, basil, sugar and salt.  Heat to boiling, then reduce to a low heat and simmer for 4-5 hours.  Meanwhile, cook the pasta and drain.  Set aside.  Add the beans and cook the soup another 30 minutes.  Remove the soup bone, stir in the cooked pasta, ladle the soup into bowls and serve with shaved Parmesan cheese and crusty bread.

Note:  This is a great summertime soup with fresh vegetables and herbs from the garden.  While the soup bone is optional, it adds a great flavor!

My grandfather had a very LARGE garden, and it was totally organic!  I can remember him carrying in large bushels overflowing with vegetables, giving them to my grandmother, and then listening to her complain of all the work he had given her to do!  But, oh, the wonderful food that she would cook from his labor would bring smiles from all of us.  I do believe that the smiles and praises made her work worthwhile.  She found contentment in her reward, and he found contentment in his.

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About Cynthia Ferich

After writing and self-publishing “MaMa Mia Cucina” in 2007, Cynthia's writing, cooking and culinary teachings evolved into being as an entity surrounding food, fun, family and friends.

In an effort to capture her family’s ‘old world’ Italian recipes for future generations to enjoy, her grandmother, ‘Noni’, and Cynthia joined forces. "She measured, I wrote, and we cooked."

During her grandmother's latter 80 years, she traveled in memory through her life, as they shared in stories of a lifetime and long ago. As they shared this final chapter in her life, what Cynthia soon discovered through all of the measuring, cooking, sharing in the love of a family, and in the love of a friendship, was the passion for cooking, and a love that nourishes us all… It’s all about the FOOD!

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