Soup.

[lady_t_220]

Made tomato soup for dinner, given as we currently have about 190-something pounds of tomatoes in the freezer from this year's insane vegetable glut.
Had virtually none last year. This year we're up to our eyeballs in them.

Anyway, it was suitably both tomatoey and soupy, so we shall call it successful.


Have dug out the big book of soup recipes for gourami_tea as well, as we were discussing soup on Tuesday and she commented that she didn't really know how to make it.
I'm not sure this book is going to help much, but I shall tote it along next time I pop over. Flipping through it I remembered why I've never used it (aside from the fact that it was one of granny's odder x-mas gifts) because everything in it is really quite needlessly complex.
Personally I subscribe to the "Take stuff that tastes good. Put in pot with water and stock cubs. Boil until soup happens." school of soup-making. Some of the stuff in here is just plain odd. I can't say as I've ever needed to know how to make 'Peanut soup with greens' or quite what makes 'Andalucian oxtail soup' different from regular oxtail soup.
Frankly I just raid the fridge for vegetables, whatever meat may need finishing, throw it in a saucepan (with currently an assload of frozen tomatoes) and see what comes out.

I'd probably do better scanning in the soup chapter from the big fat vintage Good Housekeeping book to be honest. Perhaps that will be done some day when I'm really, REALLY bored...

Comments

[deke.livejournal.com]

Did the cantaloupes ever turn out?

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

I think it may have been a bad year for them. Last year we had boxes and boxes of pumpkins, this year we've had hardly any. Same for the courgettes. I guess a good year for tomatoes is a bad year for the ground-dwelling vine-y things.

[deke.livejournal.com]

Well, nuts. and they're out of season here, so I wouldn't be able to get you any more Rocky Ford seeds until next year. :/

[lady-t-220.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm guessing when the parentals get the poly-tunnel up finally they'll be happier in there and may well do better.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hedgewytch_/]

Yummy Soup ;)
Its getting that time of year again I love it

[sooretired.livejournal.com]

I made the most delicious pot of vegetable soup yesterday. It was rainy and dark and cold out and the soup really hit the spot.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hedgewytch_/]

Hhmmmm yes!!!that's what I mean :) so easy to make too!