Magicpole
Well-Known Member
I love homemade soup and I don't care who knows it. If I say so myself, which i will, I make great soup. This is not a skill I learned from my mother, her homemade soup made stagnant pond water look fucking delicious. My mum, was to cooking what Bobby Davro was to comedy, an insult.
My learning to cook was a survival necessity. Soups, were one of the first things I mastered. This very afternoon I made a large pot of minestrone, to which I add smoked paprika and enough garlic to fend off a million vampires. Various beans, thinly sliced carrot, pasta shells, vegetable stock, chillies, canned tomatoes, tomato puree, pasata, basil, oregano, black pepper.
It is fantastic. There's no other word for it. Is it because I am middle aged that I love soup? I was wondering who else loves and makes their own soup? What kinds, as I am always on the lookout for new varieties. A couple of years ago I gave up eating meat, vegetarian food is on the whole fucking awful, so soups now provide an enjoyable alternative to my restricted diet.
It may be the snow, but cold weather makes soup better.
And yes it's been a slow day.
My learning to cook was a survival necessity. Soups, were one of the first things I mastered. This very afternoon I made a large pot of minestrone, to which I add smoked paprika and enough garlic to fend off a million vampires. Various beans, thinly sliced carrot, pasta shells, vegetable stock, chillies, canned tomatoes, tomato puree, pasata, basil, oregano, black pepper.
It is fantastic. There's no other word for it. Is it because I am middle aged that I love soup? I was wondering who else loves and makes their own soup? What kinds, as I am always on the lookout for new varieties. A couple of years ago I gave up eating meat, vegetarian food is on the whole fucking awful, so soups now provide an enjoyable alternative to my restricted diet.
It may be the snow, but cold weather makes soup better.
And yes it's been a slow day.