I'm starting the week by posting what we had for supper on Saturday evening; this delicious minty pea and potato soup for 4 from the Good Food website;
As usual I just quickly skim read through the recipe, and then made a start, with only a vague idea of quantities. I don't think it can be crucial as our soup came out fine. I tweaked the seasoning with some lemon juice, and we ate some Tesco puff pastry parmesan twists left over from our holiday last week.
Onions and peas from the freezer, mint from the garden and one of the instructions potatoes from the bottom of the fridge.
I feel like Old Mother Hubbard at the moment; every time I go to the fridge to make lunch or supper, I open the door and find it almost bare... there's plenty of food in the freezer though. It's the fresh stuff I've used up. I put in an extra grocery order yesterday and it was delivered earlier this evening, which will meal naking much easier!
I'll make the soup again - especially as it is so quick and I've usually got the ingredients to hand. Meanwhile I'm looking wistfully at pictures of cordless stick blenders...
A few days ago there was a local news item that suggested a hosepipe ban was imminent. It hasn't materialised yet, but I'm sure it won't be long in coming. We've lined up the buckets, and started saving bath water. BB carried 4 buckets downstairs from his last bath.
I remember from last time that just chucking it out of the window into a large tub below was a complete failure, as well as causing great alarm to an unsuspecting BB in the kitchen below, working with the kitchen door open. Carrying it down buckets is far more successful. But much less fun.
Music
Slow movement from Petite Suite by Gounod. I don't think I know any music by Gounod apart from the Ave Maria.
This is scored for an interesting combination of 1 flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 horns
I love how we both speak English in the UK and USA but I'm constantly stumped by phrasing or words. I had to Google what a hosepipe ban was, to lead me to understand that a hosepipe is what we just call a hose, or specifically, a garden hose. We frequently have watering restrictions and will go to an odd-even ban to start, based on house number, to occasionally entire bans for brief periods. I believe gardens are exempt...just no watering grass, which I never do anyway.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy looking up USA words and things too. I've never tried fried green tomatoes, for example. I keep meaning to find out if they are a special kind of tomatoes or just unripe ordinary ones...
DeleteIf we get a hosepipe ban that's for everyone, all the time, for any reason - gardens, car washing, filling the children's paddling pools... every thing has to be done by buckets or watering cans from a tap! Many people, ourselves included, start saving bath water and dish washing water for plants and containers as well. It seems to happen every summer now.
The soup sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteWe haven't got a hosepipe ban yet but I'm sure it won't be long. It's so irritating when we regularly see water pouring down the road from leaking, cracked pipes.
Nothing like a water leak to nake one's blood boil in a drought!
DeleteI make lots of soup for the freezer, and couldn't do without my stick blender. Your soup sounds ideal for a warm evening, light and tasty. Yum.
ReplyDeleteSoup in the freezer sounds a great idea but ours fills up so quickly! I prefer boxes to bags in the freezer as it is easier to find things so I guess that's why I can't get so much in.
DeleteOh that does sound like lovely.
ReplyDeleteI think Americans would have a cow if you tried a hosepipe ban. Some people around here have their garden watering systems on timers and they are on even when it rains! And no, we don't live in a fancy place lol
That's another expression I don't hear in England; for a fraction of a second I was imagining a real cow and trying to work out how that would help in a water shortage... then sanity returned....
DeleteI have a picture of you chucking the bath water out the window. Hilarious. The soul recipe sounds fresh and tasty one to try. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeletePea soup for the soul. Isn't there a book about chicken soup for the soul? Soup, and the making of it, is probably a soul food. Thank you for the excellent and thought-provoking typo!
DeleteYes a very apt typo. Soup is soul 👍 Sue
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