Quick and Yummy Hamburger Soup

This is a great little soup and fills you up like nobody's business!

MEAT BASE

ground beef (the leaner the beef the better)
garlic (for three pounds of meat I'll use about a third to a half a cup of jarred chopped garlic. Yeah, I really, really like garlic!)
onions (at least one great ole big sweet onion per pound, two per pound if the onions aren't as big as softballs!)
Mushrooms (quartered or sliced)
Plantains and/or parsnips - diced or sliced into medallions, however YOU like them.

Ripe plantains give wonderful little sweet bites to your mixture; whereas green plantains stay firm and have a potato feel and taste to them when you bite them.

Bone Broth or organic broth (chicken or beef - 1 quart per pound of meat)
Frozen veggies of your choice (1 4-6 serving bag per pound of meat)

Put beef, garlic, and onions in a big baking pan (or not so big if you aren't making a ton of it so you can freeze portions) and bake at 250 until the meat is done and the onions are fork tender. I do at least three pounds of meat and it takes about 2 hours, stirring every 30 minutes or so.

Get out your freezer containers/gallon zip locks/seal-a-meal and portion the meat out about one pound per container/bag. Add your frozen veggies (peas and carrots are always nice) and top off with a quart of chicken or beef bone broth. Freeze or eat!

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