Garbage Soup - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 -7 large well scrubbed potato peels, cut peels about 1/4 inch thick
1 large onion, chopped
2 carrots, scrubbed or peeled, sliced
1 stalk celery, sliced
1 garlic clove, peeled
1 teaspoon dried parsley
salt and pepper
1 1/2 quarts water

Preparation

Mix all the ingredients in a large pot and simmer covered for 1 1/2 hours.
You may now do one of two things: A- drain off the broth and reserve for future soup-making or use as any consomme, You may freeze it as well, adjust seasoning.
B-Puree the veggies add back to the liquid and add any other ingredient you wish- leftover veggies, chicken, meat etc.
This is truly a clean-the-fridge soup.