Vegetable Me'lange

Ingredients

some garlic
1 onion
4 slices carrots
1 slice celery stalk
75 gr corn
1/4 barley
3 gr parsley
1,200 ml water
2 gr marjoram
200 gr peas
130 gr tomato paste
16 ml soy sauce
32 gr spinach

Instructions

Place the onions, carrots celery, corn, barley, garlic, parsley and 3 cups of the water in a large sauce pan. Place the remaining 2 cups of water, the tomatoes and marjoram in a blender and process on low to medium speed until smooth. Add to the sauce pan. Bring to a boil, then turn down heat, cover and simmer for 1.25 hours. Add the peas, spinach, tomato paste and soy sauce, cover and simmer for 10 min. more. Note: If you are using very mature garden peas, add them 10-15 minutes sooner. From the collection of Sue Smith, S.Smith34, Uploaded June 16, 1994