Cooking & Baking

A hearty winter soup with big flavors will definitely have turnips and cabbage and beans in it.

Turnips are what I've had to eat when I was really poor and I don't like them much, so they're only a supporrting player in a winter soup made with ground chiles* instead of tomato, chicken or turkey sausage supplying what little meat is in it, beans supplying most of the protein. I don't spend the money on leeks for this soup, they'd get totally lost.

*Ground chiles are completely different from that "chili powder" sold in supermarkets It's the ground mature large chile peppers and can be mild (no seeds, no placenta), medium (not cleaned quite as well) and hot (the whole chile pepper). It's used a half cup at a time, a little cornmeal used to thicken the soup. You'll never miss the tomatoes.