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Vagus | 15:50 Thu 20th Apr 2023 | Food & Drink
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I made a pan of soup yesterday…leftover cold potatoes, some past their best carrots, and four leeks. All boiled up with a stock thingy and then a can of borlotti beans added. It was very bland.
Sooo, I added some Worcester sauce, English mustard, balsamic vinegar, a good squeeze of tomato purée, sriracha sauce, a heaped teaspoon of ground black pepper, and some salt.
What a difference! There’s enough for tonight too, with some fancy bread.
Do you always follow a recipe when making soup or do you make ‘fridge bottom soup’ using leftovers and veg almost ready to throw out? I never follow a recipe.
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Oooh, love bottom of the fridge soup. Just throw in whatever is there, add some lentils and a couple if ham stock cubes - sorted.
Always bottom of the fridge. Grandkids love it.
As well as stock cube I add some olive oil. Sometimes curry powder, sometimes some red wine left overs.
You should have added a stone from the garden!

Remember the children’s story about the tramp who made delicious stone soup?
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Oh yes, hadn’t thought of adding lentils. Or curry powder. Or stones!!!! :)
half and half but most recipes get an addition - stock always homemade. I had a batch made yesterday from the carcass of an Italian roast chicken that I had cooked on Sunday, so there are pots of stock now in the fridge, old stock used for a chicken and mushroom risotto last night.
sorry freezer not fridge....!
Leek &Potato soup - I follow Delia Smith's recipe (it's delicious). Tomato & basil or anything like that, I always make-up. At the moment I'm looking at a leftover bulb of fennel and musing.....
any suggestions welcome. :)
When I make Minestrone, anything goes!
Vagus - Hopkirk posted this one recently, 'Friends of an old boy hire a lady of the night for his 90th birthday. She arrives at his door, throws open her coat, and says, “I’m here to give you super sex!”

The old man thinks a second and says “I’ll take the soup.”'

I have no idea what flavour it was, maybe carrot and as such maybe there was cumin there....
It wouldn't be soup without a few sticks of celery chopped into it.
I start with a tin of chopped tomatoes, a tin of chick peas, a cup of lentils, and 3 cups of water. Then a tablespoon of Swiss bouillon powder. Then potatoes, carrots, and onions. Finally, a pinch of salt and a good grinding of pepper.
That makes 6 or 7 decent portions.
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Sandy, I do like celery in anything but I didn’t have any for this soup. Yours sounds very tasty and nourishing, I often add some kinds of beans or chickpeas…I love chickpeas..for their protein and filling.
Yep, Haz, pasta is often added to the pan, that’s when I call it minestrone :)
Vagus...you might like this Italian bean and pasta soup. My mum often made it for Friday night dinner. I absolutely loved it.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/oct/16/how-to-make-perfect-pasta-e-fagioli-felicity-cloake

You can go straight to the recipe! Use it as a guide, but it's really quite basic peasant food.
Thanks DTC, that looks delicious and we both love garlic - I'll have a go at that. :)
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Thanks pasta x

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