Pumpkin Soup

Filed Under Cooking & Food on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments

It’s been a LONG time since I posted to this series, but I was preparing for Halloween today, and decided I may as well grab some pictures while I worked so I could share my recipe with the world. Because it was un-planned the pics are not great, and my kitchen was less than spotless, but still, I think the shots are good enough to illustrate this quite simple recipe.

Ingredients:

  • Half a small pumpkin
  • Four onions
  • Four potatoes
  • Parsley (fresh preferred, but dried OK)
  • Thyme (dried)
  • Salt & Black Pepper
  • OPTIONALLY – Nutmeg, Coriander, and Cumin
  • VERY OPTIONALLY – Cayenne Pepper, and Curry Powder

The Ingredients

Read more

Tagged with:

Traditional Belgian Vegetable SoupI think every Belgian mother and Grand Mother makes a version of this soup – all very similar, and yet all slightly different. This is my own take on it, which is a hybrid of my Mum’s version and her mother’s version.

Lets start with a list of ingredients:

  • Three medium-sized Onions
  • Three medium-sized Potatoes (accidentally omitted from the photo below, sorry!)
  • 2 medium-sized carrots
  • 2 Sticks of Celery
  • 1 big Leek
  • 1 Litre of vegetable stock
  • 1 to 2 Litres of water
  • Parsley & Chives (preferably fresh, but dried is OK)
  • Salt and Black Pepper
  • Vegetable Oil

The Ingredients

Read more

Tagged with:

Leek & Potato Soup

Filed Under Cooking & Food on February 27, 2011 | 1 Comment

Potato & Leek Soupwith all this being sick of late, I’ve gotten very fond of always having a pot of fresh soup in the fridge. This is a lovely soup which takes about 30 to 40 minutes to make, and will keep for three days.

The list of ingredients is nice and simple and cheap:

  • 3 medium sized Onions
  • 3 medium sized potatoes
  • 3 average sized Leeks
  • 2 litres of water
  • ground salt & black pepper
  • fresh or dried Parsley & Chives
  • a little vegetable oil

The Ingredients

Read more

Tagged with:

Red Lentil & Tomato Soup

Filed Under Cooking & Food on February 7, 2011 | 8 Comments

Red Lentil & Tomato SoupThis is a recipe I got from my mother, and what I love about it is how quick it is. All-in-all it doesn’t take much more than 30 minutes to go from a craving for soup, to tucking in, and most of that time is just to let it boil! You can easily make this soup while you are cooking the rest of the meal or doing some house work.

Below are the list of ingredients, you’ll get four good portions out of these amounts:

  • 3 Cloves of Garlic (Mum only uses two, but I much prefer three)
  • 1 Onion
  • 170g of dried Red Lentils
  • a 400g tin of chopped Tomatoes (I like to use organic)
  • 850ml of Vegetable Stock (I use a gluten-free Vegetable Bouillon instead)
  • Parsley (ideally fresh, but dried will do in a pinch)
  • Salt & Black Pepper

The Ingredients

Read more

Tagged with: