Lindsey Nair

Features staff writer Lindsey writes about food, restaurants and recipes.

Recent columns

• How fresh is that food in your fridge? Depends.
• Summer of growth
• Beef, dissected
• Parents, think outside the (lunch)box

Recipes

• Use Your Noodle Salad
• Baked Crispy Chicken Fingers

• Recipe archive

Elvis Presley’s Homemade Vegetable Soup

1 large can whole tomatoes

2 pounds stew meat

1 cup chopped bell pepper

1 cup chopped celery

1 cup chopped onion

5 pieces of garlic, finely chopped

2 boxes frozen mixed vegetables

2 cups diced white potatoes

1 can cream style corn

12 cup okra

12 cup ketchup

2 Tbsp. salt

2 Tbsp. black pepper

Cook together meat, onion, celery, bell pepper, garlic and tomatoes in a large stock pot over medium heat for 30 minutes, stirring frequently. Add mixed vegetables and cook for another half hour. Then mix in corn, potatoes, okra, ketchup, salt and pepper. Cook for 30 minutes longer or until the potatoes are tender. Serve.

Source: www.southernkitchen.blogspot.com