Garden Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 qt. water
salt to taste
2 c. baby carrots, sliced
2 c. new potatoes, diced
2 c. peeled ripe tomatoes, diced
2 c. scallions, sliced
1 c. fresh green lima beans
1 c. fresh tiny green beans, cut in 1-inch lengths
1 c. fresh okra, sliced
1 c. fresh corn, scraped off the cob
1 1/2 c. cooked white rice

Preparation

Salt the water and bring it to a boil.
Add the carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, scallions and lima beans and boil gently for 30 minutes.
Add the green beans, okra and corn and simmer for about 15 minutes longer.
Place a spoonful of cooked white rice in the center of each soup plate and ladle some hot soup over it.
Pass a bowl of Provincial Sauce, Pistou (recipe follows), for each diner to stir into his soup.