ANY BEAN SOUP

The freshest ingredients!

The following is a great way to enhance the flavors of a pre-packaged soup, add nutritional content, and at the same time make it your own.  For this particular recipe I used KEDEM's pre-packaged 7 bean soup recipe, but that is only because it was the only thing I had in my cabinet (sorry Kedem)!  You can really use any bean soup with this recipe  and it should come out all right...or, if you're feeling particularly adventurous, you can skip the packaged soup seasoning and make your own.*

*If you are taking this route, I recommend Trader Joe's 17 bean dried soup package...you can follow their directions or make your own broth.  When I'm making my own broth I usually use a combo of Italian seasonings, hot sauce with a bay leaf or two, and salt and pepper!

GROWING STUFF-Day 10

Mushrooms from the side

DAY 10...and its almost harvest time!  These little guys have been so much fun to cultivate this past week and a half and extremely low maintenance.  All that they need is a minimally lit area (ie not directly in front of a window), moderately warm temperature (I've been fluxing from 67-75 b/c this Philly weather is so gosh darn lovely), a semi moist air climate (basically don't use air conditioning or a dehumidifier...it'll dry the little guys out!), and  a little spritzy spritz twice a day!  Not much change with my GrowBottle so there aren't any pics up today for that...but there will be soon!

GROWING STUFF-Day 09

Mushrooms from above

...you guessed it DAY 9!!!

GROWING STUFF-Day08

Caps coming along nicely

And suddenly it was the eighth day...

GROWING STUFF-Day07

Day 07 and the mushrooms are really starting to look like mushrooms!  The rate of growth of these guys is truly fascinating, and quite bizarre.  My basil GrowBottle also sprouted over night.  There are teeny tiny seedlings barely poking through the vermiculite!