In yesterday's post I mentioned that a soup making session was imminent so I thought I would follow this up with confirmation that I did use some of our weekend's harvest to make a batch of soup.
I made a sort of minestrone but without the 'mine' or perhaps the 'strone' i.e. no spaghetti. We had some frozen fresh spaghetti but no dried and I didn't fancy breaking up the fresh. OK I guess that you could say it was just a vegetable soup.
Here is a very quick photo as Martyn was twiddling his spoon ready for his lunch.
As you can see this was accompanied by Martyn's homemade wholemeal rolls so lunch was a joint effort.
My soup was based on a recipe from this website but in the end mine didn't look anything like theirs.
I left out the celery as we didn't have any - I could have put some leeks in as a substitute but didn't.
I also used some of our own frozen tomatoes rather than tinned and I used a can of mixed beans in a tomato sauce - donated by my sister as we didn't have any. The tomato sauce made up for the lack of any from the tomatoes due to not using canned tomatoes. I also added a dash of tomato ketchup as what I thought was tomato puree in the fridge wasn't!
I used what was left - after using some for dinner on Sunday - of a January King cabbage rather than savoy as that was the type of cabbage we harvested at the weekend. I maybe used less than asked for in the recipe as our cabbage was only a small one.
I also didn't use as much stock as I reasoned that the dry spaghetti would have taken up some of the liquid so I used 1.5 litres rather than 2 litres. It was a good move.
So to sum up all we had to add to our weekend harvest was a drop of olive oil, a can of beans, a slurp of ketchup and some vegetable stock.
The recipe claims to serve 4 but there looks to be at least enough for another four helpings - maybe more.
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Looks tasty, Sue... great you have all veggies to hand too. I'm a bit of a soup junkie - yum :-)
ReplyDeleteI was trying to work out whether in itself it was the five a day, Shirl
DeleteWell, it may not be Minestrone, but it sounds great anyway. I'm surprised you din't have any beans to put in it - you seem to have most things available from your plot. My current favourite is Celeriac - can't get enough of it! It adds such a savouriness and depth of flavour to a dish. Wish it was easier to grow, though.
ReplyDeleteWe wish we could grow celeriac too. We've never got round to growing beans for shelling, Mark
DeleteOoh, home-grown, home-made soup is the best!! Looks lovely
ReplyDeleteIt certainly us the best, Belinda
DeleteLooks delicious! I love vegetable soups!
ReplyDeleteSo do I, Dewberry
DeleteYour soup looks really good; bet it was tasty!
ReplyDeleteIt was Kelli
DeleteWho cares what it's called - looks fantastic and I bet is smelled good too :}
ReplyDeleteYes it did smell good and I wasn't too bothered about its name either, Bilbo
DeleteIt looks delicious, especially with those home made rolls.
ReplyDeleteFrom my own master baker as well, Jo
DeleteI am inspired. It looks great. The weather was -3 degrees here so soup sounds grand. Thanks for the idea.
ReplyDeleteHope you enjoy your version Bonnie
DeleteHmmm maybe I'll make soup tonight. its a little cooler here today so I quite fancy it after seeing yours.
ReplyDeleteIt's a light soup despite all the vegetables Liz so fine for times other than the depths of winter.
DeleteThere's nothing quite like homemade soup AND with homemade bread too! perfect :)
ReplyDeleteEspecially with home grown ingredients, Anna
DeleteLooks very yummy, I eat soup almost every day for lunch and I am always on the hunt for new recipes.
ReplyDeleteI love soups too Helene - great when you have fresh vegatables to use
DeleteYummy, great reward for all the gardening that went in to producing the ingredients.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it is Janet.
DeleteYour cooking sounds a bit like mine Sue. Here's a recipe....use at a guideline then do exactly as I please. I have about a 98% success rate of tasting good and repeating it!!
ReplyDeleteYou can't really stick to recipes exactly can you, Tanya? - There's always something you haven't got or something you have that isn't in the recipe.
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