Today, as i so often do, I rose trotted along to the bathroom and looked at the clock. Time, I thought, to start my energetic morning. And for once I was right.
As I sit here. full of potato cakes, sausage and scrambled egg, I feel frugal and well fed. The sausage was one set aside from last night’s meal (sausages with onion gravy and mustard mash – we had to change plans at short notice so I fell back on something easy) and the potato cakes were made from the leftover mash with spring onions, flour and an egg.
As I write, I can hear the soup maker on its final blending cycle (broccoli and leek – I should have used onions but we have too many leeks) and the scent of slow-cooker lamb casserole is filling the house. It’s not quiet the same recipe as the one on the internet (which is so often the case when using online recipes) as the recipe uses just carrots, onions, peas and potatoes as the vegetables. We only had one carrot so I made up the deficiency with sweet potatoes, parsnips and swede. We also had surplus leeks and celery (see above) but it’s true to the spirit of the recipe. However, I was a bit annoyed to find it was New Zealand lamb when I looked at the label. I had assumed, in the absence of information on the supermarket website, that it was British lamb.
And that is pretty much all the news for the day. I am now writing, and that, if I’m lucky, will fill the rest of the day.
This is how I filled some of it.
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The soup maker is a good thing but potato soup is much better when made in the pan and sieved through a mouli. Machine blended potato soup and wallpaper paste have a lot in common.
Yes, my early experiences with potato soup stopped me making it completely. It seems so simple when other people do it.
A good start indeed. I like the smiling potato
Well spotted. I’ve used that photo several times and never noticed the smile until you prompted me. Once you see it, it is indeed an engaging smile.
Nothing like starting the day feeling frugal and well fed! 🙂
🙂 So true!
Like the potato cake recipe. and my leeks are growing well.
I’ve always found leeks to be a reliable, and tasty crop. I may7 try thinly sliced leek in the potato cakes next time.
What’s a soupmaker
https://tinyurl.com/mr2bd38w
A large jug with a heating element, some blades and a timer. Fill with veg and stock, press the button and off it goes. Bubbles, boils, blends and 21 minutes later you have soup. 🙂
That’s awesome
One of the best features is that after I filled it, it made the soup as I prepared the stew.
I just assumed you already had one to sit alongside your space age kettle. 🙂
I’m a slow cooker and transfer to the blender girl
I’m a big fan of the saucepan and hand blender approach, but the soup maker has its palce too. I only just got a slow cooker again after about twenty years and am having trouble adjusting.
I love the slow cooker, especially on nights when my family all eat at separate times
Yes, I can see it being useful then. I’m going to try to do more with it, but I ahve so many good intentions. 🙂
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A soup maker! I’ve never heard of such of a device. Will look it up.
Ours is like this one, though a few years older.
https://tinyurl.com/mr2bd38w
Put the veg and stock in, press the button and 21 minutes later you have soup. 🙂
Wowsah!
I always assumed the Americans would have them already, but bigger. 🙂
They look about the same size as yours. Being an American, I would, in fact, want a bigger one. When I make soup, I like to have enough for a couple of days for the three of us.
The trick ism to make it thick and then dilute it on subsequent days as you heat it in a pan. We can do three days for two us if it all goes right. This one is a little thin so it will only be two days for us.
That is good to know.
🙂