It's soup! (vegetarian)

[ElsieDee (Laura)]

Last week it was one of my big pots of “time to clean out the vegetable drawers” minestrone - a completely flexible, usually very hearty and tasty, recipe:

Vegetable Drawer Minestrone Soup

One of the things I love about minestrone soup is how flexible it is (at least the way I make it): there are almost no constants in the ingredients, other than onions, garlic, some form of tomatoes, and some type of beans. Other than that, pretty much anything goes. That being said, one of the things that most frustrates me about minestrone soup is that every now and then I make a batch and think, “Oh, wow, I nailed it!” and then I realize I wasn’t really paying attention to what I’d done (and …