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    Home-made soup

    You just can't beat it.

    I'm having butternut squash and rosemary for my lunch...

    Made it yesterday.

    Hmmmm....
    "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
    - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

    #2
    I'm having bland microwave lasagne. Dilemma is whether to eat it out the plastic dish to save on the washing up...

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      #3
      Originally posted by cojak View Post
      You just can't beat it.

      I'm having butternut squash and rosemary for my lunch...

      Made it yesterday.

      Hmmmm....
      wow Cojak, you little beauty. I thought it was just me ...listen to this.

      I had planned to make a gallon of pea and ham the other week in the worst of the bad weather. Then I realised that we had run out of yellow split peas, so I improvised with a cup of winter broth grains and a cup of red lentils- it worked like a charm

      mmmm .... with thick crusty bread


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        #4
        Originally posted by k2p2 View Post
        I'm having bland microwave lasagne. Dilemma is whether to eat it out the plastic dish to save on the washing up...
        Ha ha ! I recognise that dilemma

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          #5
          My homemade soup this week will be beetroot and swede, with ginger and cream in. Omnomnom

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            #6
            Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
            wow Cojak, you little beauty. I thought it was just me ...listen to this.

            I had planned to make a gallon of pea and ham the other week in the worst of the bad weather. Then I realised that we had run out of yellow split peas, so I improvised with a cup of winter broth grains and a cup of red lentils- it worked like a charm

            mmmm .... with thick crusty bread


            Good man! I'm making pea and ham next weekend.

            Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
            My homemade soup this week will be beetroot and swede, with ginger and cream in. Omnomnom
            Hmm! Recipe please, TL?
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #7
              Originally posted by cojak View Post
              Hmm! Recipe please, TL?
              my soups haven't really got to that stage

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                #8
                Originally posted by cojak View Post
                You just can't beat it.

                I'm having butternut squash and rosemary for my lunch...

                Made it yesterday.

                Hmmmm....
                You are SY01 and I claim my 5 free straight jackets.
                Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by thunderlizard View Post
                  my soups haven't really got to that stage
                  Just tell us what you did then TL...
                  "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                  - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                    #10
                    ThunderSoup

                    OK.
                    (1) Go round the supermarket veg section. Select whatever they've got that looks nice. Place in basket until heavy.
                    (2) Chop up & put in the huge aluminium pan that you somehow ended up with after leaving a particularly large houseshare. Leave big chunks, because although it's "soup" you should still be able to eat most of it with a fork. Except beetroot, which doesn't go very soft. Slice that up quite small.
                    (3) Add liquid to half cover the veg, depending on which of the 3 soup subclasses you fancy. For normal soup, add water. For salty soup, add stock. For creamy soup (good with beetroot because it goes a bright playdough colour), add water and a pot of double cream.
                    (4) Add fancy bits i.e. ginger, garlic, chilli or crushed juniper berries.
                    (5) Simmer. If hungry, also grill some sausages to chuck in at the end.

                    A 1/4 full shopping basket should yield about 3 litres of soup, which should easily cover any non-restaurant meals in the week.

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