lotsa cabbage soup

Ingredients For lotsa cabbage soup

• 1 stick

  celery, sliced
• 3

  small or medium carrots, sliced
• 1/2 md

  sweet onion, chopped
• 2 clove

  fresh garlic, minced
• 3 Tbsp

  vegetable oil
• 1/2 lg

  head of cabbage, sliced,
• 1 pkg

  cut green beans, frozen and cooked, or thawed
• 1

  28 ounce can, organic chopped tomatoes in juice
• 1

  14 ounce can, low-fat,low-salt chicken broth* optional
• 3 c

  water
• 10

  twists of the black pepper mill, or more, as desired