Vegetable soup

Well, this soup started out as just an attempt to use up a ton of vegetables, and ended up being one of my favorite soups i've made in a while.

I started with about 8 cups of veggie broth, and added to that maybe 4 or 5 teaspoons of oregano, and 3 or 4 teaspoons of thyme. Then i chopped up a few stocks of celery, and a few carrots into small soup sized pieces, and added those to the boiling broth.
I let that simmer for a while, while i worked on other things, and came back about an hour before dinner, and added a couple cups of (already boiled) black beans and kidney beans. Then i chunked up some sweet potatoes and put that in, and added some frozen corn.

Then i realized that it was missing some key tasty ingredients. So i chopped up some onions and sweated them in a pan with some olive oil. meanwhile i minced up a couple cloves of garlic, added that to the soup, and added the onions. I also chopped up a green bell pepper and put that in too.

After maybe a half hour of cooking it all together, I seasoned it with some salt and pepper, and called that a soup. The thyme and oregano gave all the veggies a sort of theme to rally around, and i liked it quite a lot. I served it with sweet potato black bean quesadillas. I had originally thought i would turn the soup into something southwestern-ish, with corn and beans and whatever, but that never happened. The pairing worked fine anyhow, though.