vegetable and flageolet bean soup

About five carrots, two sticks of celery, and a leek, chopped up small.  About a mugful of flageolet beans, soaked in boiling water and left for about six hours.  The remains of last week’s soup – about half a pint of tomato and lentil. All hurled in the slow cooker, topped up with cold water,…

this week's soup 11 feb 08

Bit late with this, as first we finished last week’s soup, and yesterday we had -shock horror- Tuscan bean soup from the Co-Op, as I have a cold and hadn’t made any and wanted soup. The Co-Op was selling bags of “stew pack” veg reduced to 99p – a bunch of carrots, a swede, a…

this week's soup w/c 24 nov 08

I forgot to tell you about last week’s soup, but it wasn’t very exciting, and involved grated cabbage, so we’ll move on. I cooked a gammon in coke at the back end of last week (well, half a gammon, to be precise; the other half is in the freezer).  In fact, it was a gammon…

this week's soup 10 nov 08

I am remiss in telling you about this, and indeed I’m sure you don’t care.  I record them for myself, really 🙂 I used the stock from the very last of the roast chicken.  Food processed one parsnip, one leek, four carrots, half a swede into mulch, hurled it in the soup pan, cooked down…

this week's soup 3 nov 08

I took the vegetables the chicken was cooked on, and blitzed them in the Magimix till they were in small bits. Added the juice from the chicken pan, a carton of creamed tomatoes, about 1 litre of water, and a cup of puy lentils.  It’s simmering now for lunch – smells rather good.

this week's soup w/c 25 oct 08

One parsnip, half a swede (rest was mashed up with potato to go with last night’s stew), three carrots, one leek. All cut into small dice, then sautéd with some oil to cook them down a bit. Added a couple of litres of cold water, a handful of barley, salt and black pepper, and some…

this week's soup

This one is a real mongrel.  You’ve probably heard of Nigella Lawson’s gammon cooked in coke – it’s utterly delicious, and I make it often (we’re big fans of buying a large gammon and having it for our lunches during the week). Rummaging in the shed last weekend, we found 12 bottles of ginger beer…

this week's soup

using up: last week’s soup(!), some chicken The photo was the start – the jug on the left contains the remains of last week’s soup; a starter, if you will.  The jug on the right contains the water I cooked the broccoli in for Friday night’s stir fry.  The chicken is the remains of a…

duck soup

I boiled up the duck carcass – Pete was a hero and stripped it down afterwards; it’s a job I hate. A surprising amount of meat came off it.  And there was, of course, a lot of duck stock. I had deliberately cooked extra veg with the duck on Monday (carrot and leek in vegetable…