Beef & Vegetable Soup
I wanted to use the leftover celery and green beans and make something easy to heat since I didn't know when J would come back. Hearty vegetable soup would be right. Also, I wanted to make J happy. Beef could join in. I adapted a recipe of Beef and Vegetable Soup from Cook's Illustrated. The recipe was streamlined to be good for weeknight, but still should bring complex rich flavors like several hours cooked soup by adding glutamate-rich "Umami" ingredients like soy sauce, tomato paste, mushroom and red wine. After all, I cooked the soup on low heat extra hours while I was waiting for J. The soup was very rich, maybe richer than it was supposed to be. J liked it. That was all what I need!
