Organic Granny

  Cozy up with this hearty Lazy Perogy Soup! Perfect for chilly days, it’s a comforting, healthy lunch with simple ingredients you can easily swap It is cold outside again-- really unseasonal for our gorgeous hunk of Vancouver Island-- so here is my feel-good-on-a-cold-day soup recipe. Please feel free to substitute other things you have in the kitchen for what you might not have that is in today's recipe:  **Heat 8 cups water to boiling and cook 4-8 perogies.  Set them aside. ** Saute 2 medium onions , chopped and 1/2 small green cabbage , shredded in a large soup pot with   1 T. Coconut or Olive oil or bouillon or vegetable broth. ** When the onions are fragrant and translucent, add:   **2 C. Organic Tomato Pasta Sauce  **3 C. Filtered Water  ** 1 C. Natural Sauerkraut (not the kind made with vinegar and cooked to death)   ** 1 Can Organic Navy Beans  **Add the cooked perogies to individual soup bowls with the soup.  **...

I know that this sounds a little mystifying-- after all, doesn't 'zupa' mean 'soup'? Why, yes zupa does mean soup (and also something like a drunk's sop , but we'll overlook that definition). Okay. Zupa Soup sounds so much better than "Yesterday's Lazy Cabbage Rolls* combined with all the malingering week's veggies chopped up and made into a soup". But that is basically what you have here.  I made up this pretty delicious Lazy Cabbage Rolls (vegan) but I wasn't that keen on the fact that the rice didn't quite cook through (although that didn't bother my dh-- he had a couple of servings).  So, today I combined about 1 C. of fried Mushrooms , 1 fried chopped Onion , 3 yellow Peppers (which I had roasted and skinned), and about 2# of Broccoli florets  in with the left-over Lazy Cabbage Rolls (and various spices, more dill and salt and pepper, basically) and 1 Simply Organic jar of Pasta Sauce , and about 2 qu...