Weather Turning means one thing... SOUP!

randomshenans · 10 Oct 2012 at 08:59

I actually really like this time of year, because it is starting to get a bit colder, you can wrap up warm and get yourself making batches of one pots and soups!

I soaked myself today riding to work. Properly drenched. So I have decided tonight we're doing some soups for the freezer and my belly.

Couldn't find a soup thread, with my useless looking, so who else likes a bit of soup and what are your recipes?

I think I'm going to go for a bit of spicy carrot and sweet potato soup, if I can find sweet pots around here.

Yourselves?

randomshenans · 10 Oct 2012 at 12:14

Nice. I'll make some tonight and put up what I decide to do. I'm dreading the ride home at the moment as it's belting down. I'll need that warming.

Now, meat in soups, what do you normally have?

I find anything but chicken hard to put in soups, unless it's pre slow cooked first, you know?

randomshenans · 12 Oct 2012 at 08:50

Nice, I have a swede at home, might have to try that.

Last night I made a soup up from things I'd bought. It was a spicy* carrot, parsnip and red lentil soup.

*it wasn't spicy, mild warmth, but the kids have to eat it as well.

It had in it:

2 celery sticks diced
1 onion diced
2 garlic cloves
12 carrots, chopped
1 parsnip, chopped
big handful of dried red lentils, soaked and cooked
stock to cover (can use just water, but I used chicken stock)
salt, pepper
ground cumin,
ground coriander
ground ginger
ground cinnamon
paprika
cayenne pepper
knob of butter

I had made the above spices in to a rub for meat, and had some left in a tub, so used some of that for this as it had all the things in I wanted anyway. Cooked it all up, lentils separately and skim the foam off the top of the lentils. Once they're cooked, chuck them in with the rest and stick blend it. Add a knob of butter at the end.

EAT

I have it here for lunch as well. Leftover will be frozen. I'm making another soup tonight. A kind of minestrone of sorts.

Mmmm

randomshenans · 14 Oct 2012 at 13:57

Of course.

randomshenans · 15 Oct 2012 at 10:49

I bought a new massive pan, just for making soup. Did it friday night, left it cooked on the top of the cooker as I was out all day and came back and it had already spoiled. Balls. Massive waste. I was really annoyed.

More soup later then.

randomshenans · 18 Oct 2012 at 13:56

I think it's impossible to make a bad homemade soup, even if you just chuck loads of stuff in!

randomshenans · 8 Nov 2012 at 11:37

Stan_Lite said:
You've obviously never had any of my brother's 'soup'

lol really?

I made an awesome one last night. Variation on Nigel Slater's celeriac and bacon soup, but it's a piece of cake to do.

I had one massive celeriac nearly the size of my head, which is a big ol' head.
A package of smoked pork belly. Properly smoked. Not like smoked bacon, like you open it and it smells like the house is on fire, smoked.
2 onions,
veg stock, or chicken. You decide.
wholegrain mustard
thyme, dried.
Salt/pepper.

Onions chopped in pan with a small knob of butter, add smoked belly (can also use lardons or pancetta, chopped). cook until the fat renders and softens down and onions soften. Add chopped up celeriac and salt. Make sure you chop the celeriac small enough as it takes a bit to cook otherwise. Small cubes.
Cook this for 10mins, then add the stock to cover it fully. Add thyme, pepper, mustard and cook for a couple of hours.

Blend the balls off it.

EAT this tasty beast!