Yesterday for dinner I opened another jar of the Chipotle Beef Soup that I canned a month or so ago. I put way too many chipotle peppers in that soup and it's not easy to fix. I opened a quart jar, poured it in a pot, heated it and tasted it because some of the jars had more peppers than others. This one must have had the most! I grabbed a pint of black beans I had canned and a pint of cannellini beans I had canned, dumped those in there. I had leftover broccoli. Added that. There was about 1-1/2 cups of leftover roasted butternut squash in the fridge. I dumped that in there. Because the two pints of beans both had liquid in them, the soup was still a good ratio of meat/veggies and liquid.
I let it all simmer for 10 or 15 minutes, grated some cheese, got out a package of saltine crackers and it was perfect!
When I went to put away the leftovers, there were 2 quarts of soup. I laughed . . I started with one quart of soup, we both ate and I had two quarts left; several leftovers from the fridge used up and two more empty pint jars.
I'm loving doing this. Today we have several appointments in town. I told Vince I'm going to heat up the soup again, make a salad and grilled cheese sandwiches and that will be our meal. He said he was happy with that plan! Can't beat that!
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