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Tortilla soup

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I am going to try to focus my next several posts on kid friendly meals. Most everything I post does have my family's approval, but I can tell which ones my kids especially like. I kind of made up this recipe over a few months time and it has become one of the fastest meals to put together after a long day.

Tortilla Soup
3 cups vegetable broth
2 celery ribs
2 carrots
2 tomatoes
1/2 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp. paprika or cayenne
*optional: 1/4 onion or 2 green onions
(the raw onion flavor wasn't a big hit over here)

I put all of the ingredients in my vitamix and blend it and then I blend it on high for about 5 minutes to heat it up. You could easily blend this up and then heat it on low over the stove until it's warm enough to your liking.

Then I put it all in a pot and add:
1 can corn
1 can black beans

It will be a soupy mixture like this:
Then I top it with crushed chips and olives. You could easily substitute the chips for whatever you like. Rice would be good. My kids usually eat a few bowls of this.
(yes this is a picture of my daughters bowl of soup. Maybe someday I will get a decent camera and you won't have to suffer through these blurry pictures that I can't take the old date off of :)
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