reactive winemaking!

I’m getting the hang of this winemaking lark now, and I’m much more confident than I used to be.  We did our monthly trip to Makro on Saturday (first time the car had been out for a fortnight!), and they had a 5kg bag of carrots reduced to £2.30.   “Wine!”, I thought, and bore…

chicken (and duck) soup

I stuck the chicken carcass in the slow cooker (how I love that thing!) with just some water, and cooked it overnight to make stock. And then I cooked it again the next night, as I hadn’t got round to removing the chicken from it and stripping the last of the meat from the bones…

sweet potato soup redux

It worked really well, the sweet potato soup.  But we were out and about all weekend, so I put the remainder (a litre or so) in the fridge, and of course it went very gloopy. So this morning, I fished it out, added a mugful of lentils and about the soup’s volume in water, together…

planning a sweet potato soup

I have a bag of sweet potatoes in the fridge – lord knows why, we never use more than a couple at a time, but I was surprised by them in the Co-Op. In the freezer, I have a tub of stock leftover from making a coconut chicken curry, and a small tub of butternut…

radish top soup

Not cooking much at the moment, but here’s a recipe from my mate Mym, which I will try when I am ensconsed in my new house. Radish Top Soup made this for lunch today v nice, and uses an often thrown away ingredient. 2 Tablespoons Olive Oil 1 Large Shallot, finely chopped 2 Cups Radish…

impulse soup

The weather was unseasonal and rainy, and forecast to be like that for the week. Neither P nor I are feeling particularly well, either, and so we decreed Soup. There wasn’t much in – we’ve cancelled the box from Box Bush Farm, as we weren’t happy with the service. The last box we had contained…

chicken soup

As I mentioned, there was a bit of a soup crisis yesterday, occasioning me to fetch the chicken carcass out of the freezer and bung it in the slow cooker to make stock. This morning, Pete nobly stripped the meat off it, and there was enough for at least one more meal! I put the…

woe …

I forgot to put the soup in the fridge on Friday (which I normally do, as we don’t normally eat it at the weekend). Given the temperature, and remembering that both P and I were quite ill after eating some shoop that had gone over, we have reluctantly poured it into the compost bin. Thankfully,…

four meat soup

This week’s soup is a real amalgam. I marmalised  in the food processor: one leek, one parsnip, two sticks of celery, two carrots.  Into the slow cooker they went. In the freezer were two bags of chicken and peapod stock, to make ris e bisi, but we decided to sacrifice them to the soup.  So…

soup mix

A load of manky old veg – spuds, a soft pepper, a wrinkly courgette and some soft carrots. Oh, and some very sad celery. Only the leek was pristine and fresh. Diced small by hand (because I felt like it – often I don’t), hurled in the slow cooker with some barley, seasoning, water and…