Vegetable Soup

Beef short ribs or soup bone
water
onion
garlic
celery (once again good time to use leaves)
green pepper
tomatoes
cabbage
carrots
potatoes
green beans
peas
squash
okra
turnip
any vegetable you like
beef bouillon

Put the meat (can use better meat if you want), celery, onion, garlic, water, bouillon, and green pepper in a huge pot to cook. Bring to boil and let simmer for a couple hours. Add the tomatoes (quart jar or couple small cans of petite diced), cabbage and more water if need. This is soup so plenty of water is not a problem. Don't forget salt and pepper. Let this cook an hour or so and then start adding the vegetables. Be creative on this because this is the part that makes it good and healthy. Make sure you have plenty of water and let this stuff cook for at least another couple hours. My mom would cook the meat and such up to the tomatoes the night before and then let it cool. After school I would add the vegetables so you can see it is pretty hard to mess it up. My mom never added corn because she said corn and tomatoes don't go together. I never have done it. You can if you want but I don't see the need. This is soup for the different vegies. You can take the green pepper out before you serve or just don't dish it up. Cook it whole. You will also need to take the meat out before you add the vegetables and pull it from the bone and any fat, then put meat back in. Sometimes I use the canned meat. Short ribs usually can be found pretty lean so I use them most often. Soup bone is pretty fatty.