Daydreams of Soup and a Troublesome Spellchecker

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Generally Green Soup – broccoli, cauliflower and cauliflower leaves

I made soup today – it’s Bean Soup. Julia has a joke that goes with it, but I will spare you the agony of hearing it again. It contains onion, celery, garlic, red pepper, tinned tomatoes, water and beans. So far I have used chilli powder and Italian herbs to flavour it.It is not so much a recipe as a list of things that came to hand while I was standing by the cooker.

My latest dietary resolution is to eat more soup. This should help me maintain my new lower weight. As a result I have been listing my normal soup recipes. It isn’t really a long list.

Bean Soup 

Now we can get parsnips again, Spicy Parsnip will be on the list, plus Broccoli, Sweetcorn, Generally Greenish Soup and Mushroom. I must resurrect some of the others which I no longer make, including Pumpkin, Sweet Potato and Nettle. That’s three sorts, not one combination, though I have been known to mix various combinations of Sweet Potato, Carrot, Parsnip, Pumpkin and Squash to come up with an Orange Soup.  I’m going to have a try at lentil soup too. I keep meaning to give it a try but never quite get on with it. And Pea. I used to make Pea Soup from frozen peas but the blender tends to leave a lot of pea skins at the bottom of the pan. I tried sieving it but it isn’t really worth the effort. I may try dried peas next time.

To dd tp my frustrations today, my WP spellchecker seems to have resorted to an American format. It’s like the English one but every so often it tries to correct a word that needs no correction. I’m not sure how this has happened, but it has happened before and I have managed to get it back. I ill have to have a look at it tomorrow.

Cauliflower Soup

 

 

27 thoughts on “Daydreams of Soup and a Troublesome Spellchecker”

  1. Lavinia Ross

    Soups are excellent food! Nettle is a good one, especially. My mushroom hunter friend at the Farmers’ Market picks them for me once a month, and I use them in soup. Chicken bone broth make a great stock for them. Add red lentils, potatoes, red onion, chickpeas and other items of choice along with salt, pepper and turmeric.

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  2. Helen

    Soup is such a great choice for taste buds combined with health. One I’ve made quite a bit this year is celeriac and potato… And one even my daughter will eat is chickpea with green pepper and chorizo/salami.

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    1. quercuscommunity Post author

      They sound good. I have hd problems getting celeriac with my deliveries over the last few years so stopped using it. I should also use chickpeas, though will probably not bother with the chorizo as I’m trying to be more vegetarian.

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      2. quercuscommunity Post author

        I have sort of drifted off soup and onto cheese on toast, with and without sliced tomatoes and spring onions from the garden. Not as healthy but strangely addictive.

    1. quercuscommunity Post author

      Yes, they are taking over the world. There are worse things than American spellings – salad, global warming and reality TV being just three of them – but I intend resisting until the last, when you may prise the last extraneous “u” from my cold, dead fingers.

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    1. Laurie Graves

      Fall, winter, and spring, we eat soup every week. This summer it has been so beastly hot that eating soup is the last thing we want to do. Your soups look and sound delicious.

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      1. quercuscommunity Post author

        They are very satisfying to make and to eat. I really should do more. Over the years I have struggled with seasoning as I have stopped using stock cubes in order to avoid anything processed, but apart from that they seem OK.

    2. quercuscommunity Post author

      I base my cookery on Gareth in Four Weddings and a Funeral – His recipe for “Duck a la Banana”, fortunately, goes to the grave with him.” as I recall.

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      1. Helen

        Try lentil soup with carrots. If you’ve got the time and inclination to grate the carrots, it adds to the flavour somehow.

      4. quercuscommunity Post author

        I am now sharpening all my knives, on the basis that sharp knives are less likely to cut you. So far I have to say they cut better, but I still nick my fingers. 🙂

        How are you doing?

      5. Helen

        Well, I didn’t receive any notifications, so sorry for the late reply. I’ve got a broken toe and have broken my promise to myself that I would write more blog posts this year. Ah well, I might write one over this weekend.

      6. quercuscommunity Post author

        That sounds bad. I had a friend who lost a toe in an accident. I had never thought of toes until then. neither had he. They are much more important than you think. Good luck with it.
        Blogging is about habit. Even after a few days off I find it hard to restart. Good luck with that too. We would like to know what you are doing. Well, I would =- I’m very nosey. 🙂

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