Asparagus Vegetable Soup Recipe

• 5 c. Water or possibly stock
• 1/4 c. Uncooked brown rice
• 2 x Potatoes, sliced, peepled ot not as you prefer
• 1 x Carrot, sliced
• 2 x Leeks, washed very very carefully
• 1 stalk celery
• 1 tsp Thyme dry
• 1 tsp Dry dill weed
• 10 stalk of asparagus, sliced. use as much of it as you can
• 2 c. Chpped spinach, preferably fresh White pepper

1. (Ordinarily I would only eat my asparagus lightly steame with garlic, but sometimes I have so much on hand..)
2. boil water, add in rice, potatoes and carrots cook til potatoes are tender
3. (not cooked through but tender).
4. Add in everything except the asparagus tips.
5. Simmer til rice and ptoatoes are cooked through.
6. Add in the asparagus tips and wilt them.
7. Variations: again terrific on a warm day with plain nonfat lowfat yoghurt.
8. can use lowfat milk or possibly cream

water, brown rice, potatoes, carrot, leeks, celery, thyme, dill weed, much, chpped spinach

Taken from cookeatshare.com/recipes/asparagus-vegetable-soup-71110 (may not work)