Soooooper soooooooup

If I know I have not got time to cook with some tired veg I just stick them in the freezer and use them later in soup.

Here it's 'don't ask' soup - could be because it's so good replication is requested, more likely that I dont dare tell them what's in it. We feed it to guests. .

We refer to to it as "Random Vegetable Soup" Problem is, if you get a particularly good batch, it is practically impossible to replicate!

Dollop Soup in this house, as in a dollop of this and a dollop of that! So far, we've survived!

I do it with past their best on a sunday

My family have always made what we call Boxing Day soup. All the leftovers from Christmas dinner, including the stuffing, pigs in blankets, veg, meat, even cheese sauce. Makes a delicious starter for Boxing Day but does give you dreadful wind!!!

I just hadn't made it with the preparation scraps before. Well, it's full of fibre so must be good for us.

I call it "use it up" soup. Like you I'm not fond of throwing anything away if I can use it. I made a brothy type thing with ham stock from boiling a joint of gammon. I put in leftover vegetables from the lunch, and some that were languishing in the bottom of the fridge. It was delicious. I ate the last of it for supper last night.

Well I might have to give that a try.....

"FOND"!!

Instead of compost soup you could call it compo soup, compo being slang for British Army field rations. DH was find of coining a phrase from Forest Gump "life is like Army compo; you never know what you're going to get"! Some of it was barely edible - I'm sure yours is much better!

Broccoli stalks would never get as far as soup with me - I love them so much I will peel them and eat them raw! Much better than the rest of the broccoli. I have to admit, the only time I have used discarded bits of veg in the way you describe is to make a veg stock, which was strained, not blitzed. Never thought of soup - might give it a go.

When we had a houseful of hungry teenagers I often made soup from the (scrubbed) veggie peelings and offcuts. Not any manky bits, natch. I never called it anything - just put the plateful down in front of them.

Well I do make soup every week but from the vegetables in the fridge that are past their perky best. I have never tried it with already cooked vegetables. I don't call it anything and it differs from week to week depending on what's available (going off) and whether I put pasta or pulses in- great for the diet though