Dirty Hippie Soup

[Hoser McRhizzy]

I've been making this for over a decade and it's a good pick-me-up kind of meal (tasty vitamin OD).  Just a normal pot of soup, revamped in the 90s after reading Healing Wise, and it changes every time I make it (which is every month or so).  Haven't included any measurements... just remember it's got to fit in the pot you're using, don't skimp on the leaves or burdock, and don't use salt (you can add it when you're ready to eat if you need to).


Get some:
Onion                  
Olive Oil (for sautéing the onion)
Burdock Root (peel and chop - for unpeeled, see the note below)      
Parsnips and Potatoes
Cold Water   
White Vinegar            
Dandelion Leaf, Collard Greens, Kale and Rapini (I use all 4, but just one is good)
Arugula (just a small bit: you're using it as a herb/seasoning, not as a vegetable)
Vegetable Soup Stock (no salt – homemade or organic if you can swing it)
Chicken (dark and/or white meat, chopped)      
Ginger Root (shave it and slice)
Garlic (smashed and chopped)      
Black and Cayenne Pepper
Celery


- Cut up your veg (burdock, parsnips, potato) into stew-size pieces, throw them in a bowl, cover with cold water and add a tbsp or 2 of white vinegar.
- Tear up or chop your leaves.
- Oil + onion in a pot.  Add your leaves when the onions are pretty (not limp).  Continue to sauté til the leaves are a darker green (just a minute should do it).
- Throw in the veg (water and all).
- Add a few slices of ginger root (I use 4, but that's pretty hot), arugula, your black and cayenne pepper, garlic (I only use 2 cloves, but you might want more) and chicken bits.
- Add as much soup stock as you need to cover the lot.  Chicken stock is fine as a substitute – just makes the soup softer and the veg less veg-like.
- Turn up the heat, bring it to a boil, then reduce the heat and let it simmer.
- Add celery about 15-20 minutes before you're ready to eat.


Note: Leaving the skin on the burdock makes it a stronger soup, which I love, but you should soak it by itself, discard the dirty water, and then soak it again.  Even then, you'll end up with some silt in the bottom of the pot.  Doesn't bother me, but that's where the first half of the name comes from. 

'Hippie,' because you're eating weeds.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

No actual hippies in the ingredients? 

[Freeky]

Hippies are bad for the digestion. This is actualy medical fact, do not question.

/Nurse Freeky

[Hoser McRhizzy]

^truth^

They won't tenderize, no matter how hard you beat on them.  Besides, there's no challenge in harvesting a bushel of hippies.  They just lay there and mumble about The Man.  If you want to give it a go and it works out, let me know what the sekrit is to good hippie cookin', but I do recommend chicken - doesn't give you patchouli-scented-body-odor breath.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

 

[ThatGreenGentleman]

Rhizome!!!! I would like to try your soup~!!!!! If possible, with hippies as an ingredient!! 

[Hoser McRhizzy]

Rhizome!!!! I would like to try your soup~!!!!! If possible, with hippies as an ingredient!! 

Awesome!  Next time you're up this way, you bring the hippies, I'll bring the veg, and we'll have ourselves a feast. 

[ThatGreenGentleman]

Rhizome!!!! I would like to try your soup~!!!!! If possible, with hippies as an ingredient!! 

Awesome!  Next time you're up this way, you bring the hippies, I'll bring the veg, and we'll have ourselves a feast. 

Woot!! I'll bring PZ with me, i know she'll love that soup. 

[Suu]

This sounds delish!

[Adios]

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

[Freeky]

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Right here.

[Adios]

 

[Hoser McRhizzy]

WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Right here.

Pomegranates and cherries and beef, OH MY! 

have to make this... am drooling...