Vegetable Orgy Soup

Sounds fucked up, but it's the best soup I've made (so far).

Ingredients

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 sweet onion, peeled and diced
6 garlic cloves, diced
1 tsp kosher salt
1/2 tsp cracked black pepper
1 bouquet garni (a few cloves and bay leaves wrapped in a sprigs of fresh thyme and tied with twine)
10 cups of vegetable broth or stock
1 head of broccoli, quartered
1 head of cauliflower, quartered
1 large russet potato, peeled and cut into thirds
1 rutabaga, peeled and quartered
1 zucchini, peeled
2 large carrots, peeled and chopped
1 15 oz can of peas
1 15 oz can of corn
8 oz of button mushrooms, halved
1 cup of cashews

Directions

In a soup pot, sauté onion in oil on medium heat with salt and pepper until lightly caramelized (~6 mins). Add garlic and cook 1 min longer. Add vegetable broth, 3/4 broccoli, 3/4 cauliflower, potato, rutabaga, zucchini, and bouquet garni and cover. Cut remaining broccoli and cauliflower into florets. Cook vegetables until potatoes are tender (~15-20 mins). Remove herbs. In batches, place vegetables and broth into a food processor along with some of the peas and cashews and transfer to a second pot once thoroughly blended. When everything has been mixed together, add carrots and remaining cauliflower and cook on medium (~10 mins). Add corn, mushrooms and remaining broccoli, and simmer for another 5 mins.

Serve family style at your next orgy.

Suggested Album Pairing

Hot Buttered Soul, Isaac Hayes.