I unwillingly made my way downstairs this morning. Though I had an ambition to do some work, I had a conflicting ambition – I would have quite liked to stay warm in bed. It was a chilly night. This summer is taking me back to the summers of the late 60s and early 70s. I remember that some of them were quite poor, and all the talk at that time was about climate cycles and a new Ice Age. How things change.
It started badly in the kitchen when I tore a pair of teabags apart to make myself a cup of tea. One tore and released a cloud of tea powder all over the floor. This is doubly depressing – a whole teabag wasted, and its contents revealed to be a long way from the lovely tea leaves of my youth. I always joke about the contents of teabags being low quality floor sweepings, but what I saw today seems to confirm that.
Broccoli Soup taken on “Food” setting
I’m probably wrong. I’m sure that tea merchants across the world will tell me they use the best ingredients in their teabags, but it just looked depressing.
I have just made broccoli soup, as you can probably guess from the pictures. It came out quite green compared to the yellowing florets that actually went into the pot. The Food setting on the camera didn’t do it justice this time, I had to use the Landscape setting. That enhances green but the soup is still actually greener in real life than it is in the pictures. I may go back to photographing flowers. At least the colour rendition is accurate.
I used a stock cube today, as Julia complained about the lack of seasoning in last night’s pasta bake. As a result, the soup tastes quite salty. This is annoying. After 30 years of not using salt in cooking I have grown quite sensitive to salt in things like this. In general though, it tastes quite good and I am about to have it for lunch.
Pale grey version
Almost off white
Once again, the camera fails to render the colour accurately.
“Social” contact (even if virtual) is essential though…agree with your comments about “British” food and rationing
Thank you for stopping by. WP saved me from going mad during lockdown. Fortunately my wife and I both enjoyed it as holiday, rather than a trial to be endured. In the second one she had to work, and I didn’t enjoy that one as much.
“quite good” is acceptable
I enjoyed it for lunch yesterday, then had fishfinger sandwiches and the tomato/bean soup for tea. Broccoli again for lunch today. It’s mot imaginative but it is tasty. 😉
I share your misgivings about the quality of tea in teabags. However, I reflect that if they put all the poor tea into tea bags, where does all the good tea go? Not many people still use teapots and tea leaves as I do.
Yes, I did wonder that myself. I suspect they don’t put the effort into making quality tea.these days. It’s a bit like bread and cheese – some is made by artisans but the vast majority is churned out on an industrial scale and coeners are cut.
You may be right about that.
I work on the basis that if I say enough things one of them will be right eventually. Julia says this is unlikely. I’m not sure whether she was passing an opinions on me being right or on the quality of modern tea. I suspect the former.
I agree, tea from large commercial outfits is not what it was in my youth.
Correct!