Day 7

What's on the menu:
Pot of homemade soup

I make a big pot and freeze extra, and I also share with neighbors or someone sick.

In a large stock pot, I cook my hen or chicken for one hour and then debone. I put deboned chicken back in pot and add a quart of my garden frozen butter beans.

After these have cooked about thirty minutes I add potatoes (about six) cut in small pieces and my onion chopped. Then, I cook this another thirty minutes.

Then I add about four carrots cut up and about two celery stalks chopped and continue to cook another thirty minutes.

I then add a pint of my garden frozen corn. I continue to cook about another fifteen minutes and add a quart of my garden canned tomatoes and a medium can of tomato sauce.

Now is the time to add all the seasonings; which is salt, pepper and a little sugar. This can be thick like our Southern stews or thin like soup, whichever you prefer. You add more water to make it soupy.

I serve this with crackers of our choice.