This is not my mother’s cabbage roll soup. She wanted me to make that clear because I changed the ingredients. And the order I cooked them in. And made it vegan.

So it’s definitely NOT my mother’s cabbage roll soup, but it is part of my own project to make a vegan version of my favourite comfort foods and family recipes.

Now comes the part where you measure olives with your heart, both literally and figuratively. If you have high blood pressure and need to watch your sodium intake perhaps dial it back. If you’re madly in love with olives and will eat them straight from the jar like me… 17 seems like a good number.