The Best Hearty Meat and Vegetable Soup

There's not much better on a warm summer day than a hot bowl of meat and vegetable soup, but we don't always have the time to prepare it from scratch. Follow these steps using the surefire drain and rinse method and you'll be enjoying The Best Hearty Meat and Vegetable Soup in no time!

Meat and Vegetable Soup Recipe

Not long ago, I found myself preparing one of my delicious drain-and-rinse recipes and, while waiting for the sauce to finish draining out of the bits of meat, I heard a strange noise beneath the kitchen sink. At first I thought it was merely the dripping from my strainer, but it was a noise that I didn’t recognize - it was kind of a thump-thump noise. My second guess was my cat, Alphonse, was trapped under the kitchen counter and pawing at the cupboard door. Cats will get into anything if you leave a door open! So I dropped what I was doing and opened the cupboard door only to remember, I don’t own a cat. I closed the door and the sound subsided … for a few moments. Then it started again! Thump-thump-thump! Baffled, I started looking in and around the kitchen sink, then under it (again, except this time not looking for a cat I don’t own), but I still could not figure out the source of this strange noise. So I stood up, and stood still. I was as quiet as I could be. I heard the humming of the refrigerator and the tick-tock of my wall clock, marking the moments of this mystery. After a pause, and not hearing the noise, I returned to preparing my food. For the third time I heard it! It was then that I discovered the source of this audio that was making me irascible; it was me! I was tapping my foot on the floor. Oh Ludivine! You silly goose!

On to the recipe!