Quick and Easy Meatball Soup

We were having a rather chilly day the other day and something warm sounded good.  Meatballs came to mind and I also had soup on the brain, so why not combine the two and make Meatball soup?!  Here is the recipe for the soup I created and we all enjoyed that day. As always please take liberty to change what you need to make it more to your liking or to what you may have in your fridge.  This is just an idea to inspire you, enjoy!

QUICK AND EASY MEATBALL SOUP

For the Meatballs:

2 pounds grassfed ground beef

2 tsp. dried basil

1/2 tsp ground pepper

1 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp dried oregano

2 eggs

1/2 cup blanched almond meal

Add all ingredients to a large bowl and mix well with your hands.  Then roll  into small meatballs, mine were a bit larger than I will make them next time, but it's really just a matter of what you prefer.  Set them off to the side, wash your hands and then assemble all your soup ingredients.

Soup:

6 cups beef broth

1 can Italian style diced tomatoes (not stewed, they generally contain corn syrup)

3/4 cup chopped yellow onion

1/2 pound fresh spinach, chopped (or several large handfuls)

6 stalks of celery, chopped

2 cups of chopped carrots

1 cup zucchini, chopped

2 cups yellow summer squash, chopped

3 cloves of garlic, diced

1/2 cup chopped fresh basil

2 tsp chopped fresh organo

1/4 cup parsley

Sea salt and Pepper to taste

Combine all of the soup ingredients and bring to a boil, then add the desired amount of meatballs ( I ended up adding all of them in the end).  Reduce heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes or until your meatballs are nicely done and your veggies are done.  Quick, Easy and Tasty! Pin It

Dinner in a Hurry!

Last night was one of those scrounge and throw it in a pot dinners, today is grocery shopping day so the night before can be a bit scarce.  Funny thing is it ended up being the best soup ever!  It got high fives from all the kids and that is a hard thing to do.  Unfortunately I didn't' keep track of amounts on my ingredients.  But after it was such a success, I sat down with my oldest daughter and we tried to recall everything that went into that pot so we can try to recreate it.  If we succeed you will definitely see it here. 
 Here is a list of the ingredients, the base was actually leftover Italian style yellow squash (which is yellow squash with onions, basil and canned tomatoes).  I will post that recipe right after I finish this post.

Everything But the Kitchen Sink Soup

This makes a huge stock pot of soup, we had some leftovers which the kids were happy about.  Lunch for them today!

3 boxes of chicken broth
1 can diced tomatoes
4 scallions chopped
1/2 red onion chopped
1 leftover batch of Italian Yellow Squash
3 pounds of Turkey Sausage Homemade Breakfast sausage
2 small bunches of Kale chopped
2-3 large handfuls of spinach chopped
Basil
1 tsp minced garlic
garlic powder
Onion powder
Pepper
1/2 tsp red Pepper flakes
2-3 mini yellow peppers
2-3 mini red peppers
fresh parsley chopped ( close to a cup)
Chopped Carrots
6 slices of Bacon Chopped and fried (I did this first and then cooked the turkey sausage in the grease)
Broccoli chopped (small amount)
entire bunch of  celery including leaves chopped


Combine and simmer until done, yummy!  Like I said if I succeed at re-creating this I will post a more exact recipe later.



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