on the fly veggie soup

I call this recipe an "on the fly" recipe. On the fly recipes are recipes that have no recipe written down. You open up your fridge and throw things together. Its cold and windy out there...and when its cold out I like soup. In my desperate attempt to watch my girlish figure I'm making my own version of the weight watchers vegetable soup. Now I've seen this recipe and I will be straight up..this doesn't look good on paper. I'm a spicy girl. I like big flavors.
So I hope you're inspired to get out your crockpot and make an "on the fly" :)

Ingredients
1 large onion chopped
2 sticks of celery chopped
1 small bunch of baby carrots
1 red pepper chopped
1 orange pepper chopped
5 shitake mushrooms sliced
2 small zuchini sliced
1 cup diced calabraza squash
1 bunch of spinich root*
6 cloves garlic. Minced
1 can of crushed tomatoes
8 medium shrimp chopped
4 cups vegetable stock
4 cups
water
1 tbsp spicy Mrs.Dash
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper

I got carried away with the veggies so I actually needed to use 2 crock pots. I decided to make one spicy with shrimp and the other straight vegetable and on the mild side.
I basicly put all of the ingredients into the two crocks with the expection of the mrs dash and shrimp. I put those ingredients into my spicy one
Now I have to address this buisness of "spinich root". I was watching this show and the host had a chef on to talk about all of the food wasted in our society. He was talking about using every part of our food. He spoke about the ends of the spinich that people just cut off and throw away. He takes those ends, cleans them very well and sautes them with garlic. He calls is "spinich root" and sells it for 8 dollars in his gourmet restaurant. I think that is so brilliant. So it inspired me to add it to my soup. More veggie bulk :)
So I hope your inspired to cut up your veggies and make a soup. I'm excited because I have enough soup for the week and to freeze for later...
Off for now bees and bears!

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