My Vegetable Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

stew meat or a cheap roast
1 spit knuckle
1 onion or use green onion tops instead of dry onion
2 to 3 stalks celery
4 to 5 diced potatoes
1 pkg. frozen mixed vegetables
1/2 or 1 green pepper, diced
1 large can tomatoes
some peppercorns and salt
1 pkg. Lipton onion soup mix
about 1/3 c. dry rice
1 tsp. parsley flakes or minced fresh parsley
4 stalks celery, cut in bite size pieces
1 pkg. frozen okra
some chopped cabbage

Preparation

Brown meat in the bottom of a big heavy pot with a little oil. Add knuckle; cover with water and simmer 4 or 5 hours with onion and celery.
Cool and remove bones and vegetables.
Cut meat into bite sized pieces and put back into pot.
Add potatoes, vegetables, pepper, tomatoes, peppercorns, salt, soup mix, rice, parsley and celery.
Simmer 20 minutes after returns to boil.
Add okra.
When okra is thawed, turn off fire.
At same time, put in some chopped cabbage and cover.
Remaining heat will cook okra and cabbage before soup is cool enough to eat.