Soup of the day

[Borlotti]

Had a good afternoon making soup, pumpkin to start with, then vegetable.  Just looking at my tomatoes, having eaten loads and made puree so am going to make tomato soup, found a recipe on here from 2003.  Had chicken last night, so suppose I will have to make chicken soup later.  People should not be hungry in this country, as my mother would make bone stew on a Monday, my favourite, (corned beef has another favourite and I still like corned beef), but she lived through the war and a real food shortage.  Had plenty of pears this year, so have made 3 pear and apple crumbles, and pear and apple sauce.  Still loads of cooking apples.  Only had one medium size pumpkin this year, and it grow from my own seed, but it has made loads and loads of lovely soup, so we won't go hungry yet.

[Borlotti]

[Jayb]

Sounds like you have been busy  I love soup too, got loads in the freezer in individual portions.

[caroline7758]

What recipe do you use for pumpkin soup, Borlotti?

[Borlotti]

From the internet: www.taste.com.au/recipes/5175/pumpkin+soup

[squeezyjohn]

People should not be hungry in this country, as my mother would make bone stew on a Monday, my favourite, (corned beef has another favourite and I still like corned beef), but she lived through the war and a real food shortage. 

I absolutely agree with you that no-one in this country should go hungry ... but have you seen the prices of corned beef these days??? It is 2-3 times the price of cheap ham per pound ... which is crazy for something which my brain wants to believe is a cheap option.

[Borlotti]

She would do corned beef hash, think we had food parcels from Australia during the war as had relatives there.  Yes corned beef was cheap then, she boiled onions and an oxo cube and added corned beef which we had with mashed potatoes.  At junior school I came home for dinner every day and she cooked for me.  Made corned beef hash the other day and didn't like it (my taste has changed).  Also I didn't like butter or cream, as was brought up on magarine and the only cream we had was top of the milk and we weren't poor. I do eat Lurpak butter now and cream.  Lambs liver is cheap and I do cook liver and bacon with onions.

[Melbourne12]

Oh yes, the lovely soup season is here!  We've got a huge bowl of leek and potato soup in the fridge right now, which will make several generous suppers with a nice hunk of home-made bread.

We use a blender to blitz leeks, onions, a stick or two of celery and a quarter of a white cabbage until smooth.  Boil some nice home-grown spuds.  Add the potato water to the smooth veggies.  Season or (better still but non-veggie) add chicken stock.  Season and simmer but not for too long to preserve the fresh vegetable taste.  Add chopped cooked potatoes shortly before serving.

[BarriedaleNick]

My new soup of the day is a curried roast butternut squash soup.

So easy to do - cover the cut up squash with curry powder or paste - roast - blitz in some stock - season and serve..

[kt.]

I purchased this soup book 2 years ago & a great investment.  A soup recipe for every day of the year using seasonal ingredients:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soup-Every-Day-Favourite-Recipes/dp/0752227432

[caroline7758]

Ordered the same one (I think) from The Book people for £5.99 yesterday. (Sorry, Dan, don't mean to undermine the A4A Amazon link but this is a bargain!)

[gazza1960]

uuuuummmmmmmmmmmm     soup....delish  !!!!!!!!!