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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: sabrina on January 07, 2014, 02:00:35 pm
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I had a friends daughter here the other day. for lunch we had home made soup. She was very taken with this as in her house soup comes out of a tin. I was brought up with my mother making soup and only ever had tinned stuff if she was too busy. I always felt it was a great way to get veg into my boys. Now I am teaching my granddaughter to cook simple things, she loves eating something she has made and feels very proud.
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home made soup is a major part of our winter diet
we make big batches, some we eat fresh the rest we freeze and i can grab that out if im home in the week on my own and want a hot lunch etc...
so many different flavours to enjoy...
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I never used to make soup - no patience as I was told you needed to have the pan on the stove for ages, and usually ended up burning everything. :innocent:
Ahem - times have changed in this self preservation household - pack of pre-prepared veg for £1 from the supermarket, 2 pints water, couple of stock cubes, zap veg in microwave for 8 minutes, add to pan with the rest, bring to the boil, zap with hand held Braun, result! :excited:
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I ALWAYS have a pan on the go, I take it to work most days.
Today is my "christmas soup"..... Brussel sprout and Stilton.... only suitable for those who live alone ;)
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Like doganjo, I thought soup was about hours of simmering and didn't bother till I left home.
Yay to soup! The best soup I do is Mexican chicken and lime, which does take a while as I like to roast the chicken thighs in spices first then take off the bone, make stock with bones and skin for the soup, then fresh lime, tomatoes, coriander and oregano and pepper... It's lush!
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dear steph hen if you would care to post a fuller recipe of that i would be very grateful...
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Here you go:
1kg chicken thighs.
1-2table spoons fajita spices
Table spoon veg oil.
1 onion
2garlic cloves, crushed
6 black pepper corns
1 cinnamon stick
8 cloves
1teaspoon cumin ground
4 cups chicken stock (which I use the bones and skin from thighs to make)
2 tomatoes diced
1chilli diced small
1 tablespoon chopped oregano fresh
3tablespoons squeezed lime juice
Pinch salt, pepper to taste.
Good handful of fresh coriander
4 lime slices.
Spices on chicken, leave if you want.
Roast till cooked in medium oven. When cool enough to handle, strip meat, rest use for stock.
Soup:
Veg oil in heavy pan, medium high heat.
Fry onion, galic, peppercorns, cinnamon, cloves and cumin for couple minutes, add chicken and fry till onion goes clear, five mins.
Add the stock.
Add tomato, chilli, and oregano, simmer ten minutes. Turn off heat.
Then add lime juice, salt and maybe more pepper to taste. Let the coriander just wilt into it, but not cook.
Serve in bowls, add a slice of lime to each.
Sometimes they put nachos in the soup at serving. They like nachos or tortillas with about everything. The lime slice is mashed up by the person eating it to give an extra kick of lime. It's great in summer and winter. Serves about four people, but with a bit extra stock, makes six bowls.
The food in the yucatan region of Mexico was amazing! Worth a holiday just for the food alone.
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I love soup and will be giving Steph Hens recipe a go. The brussel and stilton soup sounds yum too. I can use the by product as a weapon of mass destruction when I go back to work!
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Must give Steph Hens soup a go, sounds very good. My mother gave me a book just on soups years ago and I love trying different ones.
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I could quite happily live off soup. Problem is my children hate it and tend to make gagging noises :huff: whenever I serve it. I keep serving it in the hope they'll grow into it!
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MMMmm I like a lot of soups, celeriac and apple, thai chicken (made in the vitamix blender so takes no time at all) sweet potato coconut and chilli, broccoli and brie, lentil and bacon, tomato and basil. feeling hungry now :)
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Pretty much live off soup in the winter - always some on the hob. Have the New Covent Garden Soup cookbook which has fantastic recipes in it, although I frequently have what I call "12 minute soup" which takes erm..12 minutes to cook in the pressure cooker! Just what I have in the fridge all bunged in! carrot and cardamon today...
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:yum: Lentil and tomato and you can make it in minutes. Three ingredients (four if you include the water). Simple.
I also make a lovely veg soup with all sorts in it (not liquorice all-sorts :roflanim: ) that I have on my fasting days (5-2 diet).
Well, I will when I get back into it.
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I ALWAYS have a pan on the go, I take it to work most days.
Today is my "christmas soup"..... Brussel sprout and Stilton.... only suitable for those who live alone ;)
I know what you mean ..
I make my/our soup from all sorts of veg out the garden usually including swede, carrots, parsnips, leeks, celery , a bulb of garlic five or six onions , khol rabi along with three or four shop purchased medium sized potatoes , 2 pints of turkey stock turkey stock, a table spoon of home grown dried & crushed sage and 10 big fresh sprouts , plus a dash of balsamic vinegar & the rest of the blue stilton cheese. Then top up to 24 pints level boil now add a litres of skimmed milk and about a 100 ml of double cream if there is any in the fridge. Then slow simmer it on the lowest gas can get for three or four hours . I usually set the timer to one hour when I return to stir things up . By the end of the session
Unfortunately for the rest of the family :roflanim: :roflanim: I made 22 pints of this delicious elixir .. They refuse to partake of it for some strange reason .
It's all been put in vac pack heat sealed bags and frozen save for the four pints I've had already .
Once this batch has gone I'll be using the pressure canned beef stock to make a beef & veg soup , but me thinks this time round I'll give the sprouts a miss as it's getting difficult living with my self 24/7
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Pretty much live off soup in the winter - always some on the hob. Have the New Covent Garden Soup cookbook which has fantastic recipes in it, although I frequently have what I call "12 minute soup" which takes erm..12 minutes to cook in the pressure cooker! Just what I have in the fridge all bunged in! carrot and cardamon today...
Greenerlife ,
Thanks for the CGSB cook book info . I had a quick talk with Alison and had a look at one of the lesser book by them . As a result we've ended up buying the 365 soups edition .... all for under £8.00 inc P&P which is a great bargain as the RRP for the book alone is £25.00
Dave
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Greenerlife ,
Thanks for the CGSB cook book info . I had a quick talk with Alison and had a look at one of the lesser book by them . As a result we've ended up buying the 365 soups edition .... all for under £8.00 inc P&P which is a great bargain as the RRP for the book alone is £25.00
Dave
I have the little red covered book and I bought my Mum the green covered one, but I did see the whopping big one pre Christmas, and was hoping that Santa would buy it for me. Sadly, he didn't. :-[ So I might have to buy it myself! :excited:
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We are big home made soupers in this household as is my mum & sister. We have competitions to see who can make the best tasting soup. I just made today the butternut squash and corriander out of the farmers weekly. Very tasty. It said serves 4, but we got 6 portions out of it. (3 today and 3 tomorrow). The calorie count would have been good to know. We make what we call 'cold busting soup' for if someone we knows has a cold and comes into contact with us, we make garlic and onion..... then don't go out for 24 hours as we'd knock anybody out we came into contact with! :innocent: