Soup…

Sometimes it’s a rant, other times a bit of my life, good and bad, past or present. Often it’s the weather or some meaningless something I’ve seen or heard. But today it is soup.

I suppose you could call me a bit of a soup dragon. I’m a big fan of soup, it’s great. Maybe that’s why I can’t quite understand why it seems to have dropped off people’s culinary radar, particularly in these austere times, particularly as soup is healthy, filling, comforting, warming, easy to make, and cheap.

You can make soup out of almost nothing and very nearly everything, and there are lots of different soups to make – traditional soups, exotic soups, posh soups, single or multi-flavour soups. I love minestrone, spring vegetable, carrot and coriander, chicken and sweetcorn and my all time favourite… paprika spiced goulash soup.

Here’s yesterday’s Chunky Farmhouse Chicken and Vegetable – carrot, swede, parsnip, peas, onion, leeks, sweetcorn, home-made stock and chicken - which I served with hot crusty French bread.

Mmmm... soup.

I think I might start doing a soup of the week spot. Anyone interested?