Reply #13: Meatball soup

[murphymom]

This is a good "cleaning out the refrigerator" kind of dish. I cook the meatballs with broth (made from boullion cubes and seasoned with chili powder and cumin) a can of chopped tomatoes, a chopped onion, celery, bell pepper, corn, a small can of kidney beans, and whatever miscellaneous vegetables are mouldering away in the back of the refrigerator that look like they could make one last stand before they go in the worm bin. I cook some rice separately and serve the soup with it - very simple meal but my husband loves it. Change the seasonings and vegetables a little bit, use pasta instead of rice, and you could probably turn it into a mock minestrone.