Season of mists and mellow soupfulness....

Just made a load of carrot soup

Tidying cupboards today and found a packet of soup mix, mostly pearl barley and lentils. Cooking ham hock for dinner tomorrow, soup making Monday, happy days.

Leek and potato and ham with lentil are both on the menu this week.

I often make chicken broth (my gran's method) during the winter. ?
Excellent Penicillin for the cold and flu season .

Puzzler61

I do like sprouts, so maybe.
lemon I bet it gives you wind ?

It won’t give me wind Puzzler but it may give you wind if you actually make it.?although I may just breeze into your kitchen one day and sit down hopefully, clutching a spoon.

I’ll give it a go when the sprouts have got a bit of frost in them lemongrove.
My dad - veg grower extraordinaire - said that’s when sprouts have most flavour). ? ?

I found another tub of ham stock lurking in the freezer, so cue another pot of whatever-veg/red lentils/pearl barley today. There’ll be plenty of shredded cabbage in it - our last veg box brought us masses, both Savoy and spring greens.

PS, if I had any sprouts I’d add them too - I often add a few, quartered, to my whatever-there-is soup. My mother called it ‘dustbin soup’ - her go-to when she was more broke than usual, but she was a good cook and it was invariably very tasty.
It’s still known as dustbin soup in this house, dh always enjoys a big bowl of ‘dustbin’.

Puzzler61

I’ll give it a go when the sprouts have got a bit of frost in them lemongrove.
My dad - veg grower extraordinaire - said that’s when sprouts have most flavour). ? ?

Same here from my dad, puzzler. He also made bramble jelly and bramble wine, but wouldn’t take us, then our children, out to pick them until they’d ‘ had the first frost’.

It was the rule in our house and in many others that blackberries were not to picked after October because “ by then the witches would have piddled on them”.
I suspect they had all been picked long before that.

I made a massive pot of lentil and vegetable soup yesterday and stuck it in the fridge. A light tea tonight of a steaming bowl of soup and bread and butter. It's very cold here so that'll warm me up. My late mil always added sprouts to broth type soups. She cut them up into small shreds. They were lovely.

Any chance of the smoked bacon and tomato soup recipe please?
And has anyone ever made courgette and goats cheese soup?
I suppose I could google it, but personal recommendation is always more convincing.

This was a first for me today. Our last veg box delivery had so much green stuff that although we like it, I’ve been having a job to use it all up.
Among other things there was a huge bag of salad leaves, the curly green and red kind. We had salad last night, but a lot still needed using up.
So I just made a Green Soup - sweated some onion and celery, added stock and the ends of spring greens, the remains of a head of broccoli, and a handful of green beans. Added some garlic, plus chilli and ginger pastes to liven it up.
Simmered a few mins, then tipped in all the salad leaves for another minute or two.
It turned out really well - and a practically zero carb lunch to boot! ?