Grandma D's Beef Vegetable Chowder

Ingredients:
1 lb lean ground beef
1/4 t pepper
1 t salt
1 T extra light olive oil
4 organic carrots peeled and sliced into bite size pieces
3 stalks of organic celery cleaned and sliced into bit size pieces
2 large organic onions chopped
4 organic yukon gold potatoes peeled and sliced into bite size pieces
1 t salt
2 large cans (1lb 12 oz) Maestri or San Marzano whole tomatoes
1/4 cup uncooked rice
26 oz of Swanson Unsalted Cooking Stock or equal amounts of home made stock or home made tomato juice (add more if needed).

In a large soup pot brown ground beef in 1T olive oil. Drain ground beef. Add 1/4 t pepper and 1 t salt and stir. Add sliced vegetables to the pot with the ground beef and stir over medium heat for two minutes. Add juice from the two cans of tomatoes. Stir cut tomatoes into bit size pieces. Add tomatoes and stock or juice. Add rice.
Cook until vegetables are tender - about twenty minutes.