soup

Minestrone

May 29, 2011 · 0 comments

Minestrone

My way:

1 onion, diced
1 stick of celery if it’s in the soup pack, diced
3 rashers of bacon, diced.
Large teaspoon of minced garlic
Splash of olive oil
Assorted veges – I used a carrot, a parsnip, a couple of potatoes, a turnip. Because, yes, that was what was in the soup pack – chopped
Vege stock. I used a cube and hot water to top up to the amount needed to make it soup like.
Large tin crushed tomatoes.
2 tins of beans, drained and rinsed. I used one of borlotti beans one of cannalini.

Sautee onion, oil, bacon and celery in large pot.
Add veges and stock and tomatoes and beans.
Cover. Simmer. Ours was going for an hour.

Eat. Yum.

Minestrone

Also goes well with fresh bread from the breadmaker. This one is using the Laucke Easy Bakers Gluten Free Meals and Grains with a handful of pepitas. I just make it up to the oven recipe and use the yeast free setting. Might do with a little less water than that, but it’s fine :) As you can see, it’s hard to slice when warm! ;)

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La Zuppa Soup

mmm got the two new La Zuppa flavours of microwavable soups sent to me to try… Been eating the rest of the range the last two winters… gluten free, dairy free, warm, convenient and yum!

La Zuppa Soup

I may have scalded myself slightly on the chicken one… the container is a little squishy, and I squeezed it in :\ oops

La Zuppa Soup

The pumpkin may look boring but had heaps of flavour, and filled me up :) nom nom nom.

:)

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Souper Weather

March 31, 2010 · 0 comments

We ended up using the contents of my Fruit and Veg box win for good, not evil (including banana and pears for snacking this week).

Roast Chook
A yummy roast chook for Sunday and Monday

Soup
And yummy, but less pretty Curry/lentil soup. See below the cut for what went into that one.

(ps only 3 more days to end to win The Purple Glitter Jesus Money Box. Jesus is currently in my fruit bowl.

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Over-reacting, much?

April 13, 2009 · 3 comments

Okay, so Laksa didn’t go according to plan, and we wound up in a noodle place in Woden. I was still very happy to get my vege and wonton noodle soup (when it finally came that is)…

Though of course good soup can’t be the highlight of a lunch, can it? Or the good company… no, it has to be the crazy lady with the arm waving across the street whose car got bumped into by the car behind it.

Minimal damage to hers – 1 broken tail light and a scratch to the bumper. Should be easy enough? Swap details, sort it out with insurance. Right? That’s what most of us would do.

(Most of us would also move our car off the road, unlike this lady who thought – or didn’t think – that leaving it where is was was the best measure, so that it was kinda off the road, but not enough so that two lanes of traffic could pass each other…)

Instead, this woman proceeds to waves her arms around a lot, get all huffy and sulky, does the number exchange thing, then gets on the phone. My guess was to her partner or someone nearby so that she could make sure she got all the details she needs… again, that’s what I’d do though.

A few minutes later…

A fire engine and two ambulances rock up. A FIRE ENGINE AND TWO AMBULANCES!!

It was a tail light! You can’t have been going more that 15-20… tops…

One ambulance stays, the other swiftly leaves. The fire truck stops, guys get out, wander around, then leave after the woman gets some more arm waving in.

The remain ambulance officers split up – one finally convinces Ms Crazy to get her car off the road (after more huffing and arm waving) while the other chats to the driver of the other car, you know, probably because he’s sane and just wants to get on with his day.

Soon after that? Unmarked police car (black Holden ute) comes with its fancy hidden lights… I’m sure the minute the ambo spent chatting with him was to say “hey, this woman just keeps huffing, you’ll probably have to book the guy for something, jsut make it small so we can all get on with our lives”.

It’s at this point where it’s realised that we should probably all get on with our lives too. heh.

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