Sunday 28 August 2016

Scrabbling around in the fridge

Yesterday the latest incarnation of Cheeky Bottom Soup made its appearance at Frugal Follies.  This time a scrabble around the fridge yielded yellow courgettes, green courgettes, tomatoes, runner beans and onions.  All bar the onions were free food from my own garden or the prolific gardens of friends,

I bunged the whole lot in a roasting tray with a glug of olive oil and a wallop of garlic and a plonk of pesto in a moderate oven for an hour, then blitzed them.  Some was combined with a little vegetable stock for lunch but the rest will be frozen without stock (to save freezer space) and pulled out in the winter when I need a reminder of summer sunshine.  

15 comments:

  1. Making soup from almost anything is so easy-peasy, I don't know why more people don't make their own soup - but perhaps they do? All made in about 20 minutes and blitzed in the liquidizer, and out comes lovely soup, whether it's watercress, pea and mint, any-veg-that's-available, carrot & coriander, leek & potato ... we love soup all year round, our favourite is tomato and courgette. I can't remember when I last bought a can of soup. Not since Campbell's stopped making their Tomato Rice soup which was the only canned soup we enjoyed.
    Margaret P

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    1. Ooh, yes. I miss Campbells Tomato and Rice. It was wonderful!

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    2. I'm glad i'm not the only one who remembers it and misses it! I also miss Shippham's anchovy paste (more recently Princes Anchovy paste but they've now discontinued it ... it's much better than the up-market Gentleman's Relish!), and I also still miss Huntley and Palmer's Breakfast biscuits, which were wonderful with just some butter on and even a light sprinkle of the stuff we must not now use, i.e. salt!
      Margaret P

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    3. We diverge - I love Patum Peperium! And I wonder if that's familiar to Americans,

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    4. I enly Patrum Peperium, too, but preferred the more 'common' Shippham's anchovy paste. But both are (or were) good.
      Your cheeky bottom soup reminds me of what I used to say to our sons when they were young when they wanted to know what was for 'afters', and I'd say "Wait-and-See-pudding".
      Margaret P

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    5. My mums answer to what's for dinner was, "Two jumps at the pantry door and no second helpings".

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  2. I love opening tubs from the freezer to find a little taste of summer hidden inside. Soups are so easy and versatile, I echo what Margaret says ' I don't understand why more people don't make them' as they are cheap, nutritious and tasty.

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    1. I think we have to blame TV chefs who make such fancy ones. Cheeky bottom is always delicious and simple.

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  3. Can I just comment on the wordage in this post?
    Eight extremely colorful words (in a good way), many of which I expect to be quite English. What a fun post for a reader to read! Although it will take me some time to figure out what a few of them actually mean. I think you're teaching me a new language.

    Oh and I meant to comment on your post the other day; if you ever long so much to hear the word "pop" used in regular vernacular just head on over here. Most of the country uses "soda" but here in the mitten and some surrounding areas we say pop.

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    1. Ooh, now which eight words in particular? I'd forgotten when I wrote it that courgette and zucchini are the cross Atlantic words for the same thing so that's one word. "Cheeky Bottom Soup" is my own phrase and if you hover and click on those words in the text it will take you to that story.
      And "here in the mitten"? New one on me and I'm assuming it means Michigan.

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    2. Haha, yes we call our state "the mitten" since it looks like one. Another fun fact, us Michiganders use our hand to show people where we live. When we use this trick with people who don't live in Michigan they're generally very confused.

      Okay, courgette was one of them. I would have never guessed that meant zucchini. Cheeky is a word that I pretty much understand but we don't use it, so that was another. The others are: bunged, glug, plonk, wallop, and blitzed. I know or could guess what most of them mean but they certainly aren't every day words and I like them. Bunged and plonk I've never heard before though.

      To see them all together in a single short post is probably what made it so fun for me though. A treat for the ears. Read it out loud. I think you'd agree.

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    3. I agree to loving the colorful expressions. Soup is the greatest "invention". Frugal and market, instant group meal.

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    4. Oh, I love the difference in word usage between the UK and the USA. For example, if a chap here went out in his vest and pants he'd be in his underwear, while in USA he's be nicely dressed, very smartly!
      With food, there's another difference. We use jelly as a dessert, but jelly in the USA is, I think, what we call jam. For jam in the USA the word, I think, is jello. Hope I'm right, Rivulet?
      Margaret P

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    5. Oooh, I hadn't known the "vest and pants" difference. That's a great example!

      You are correct that jelly is not a dessert here but we use both words Jelly and Jam for a fruit spread. Like peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter and jam sandwich are almost exactly the same thing. Jelly is usually very refined (doesn't have chunks of fruit or seeds in it) where as jam is thicker with fruit and seeds in it. And Jello is a dessert, a gelatin dessert. Is that what jam is in the UK?

      I kind of think there is a big difference between what we call pudding and what you call pudding. Every time I see a UK pudding recipe I don't understand how it's being called pudding, but then that makes me wonder what you all would call our version of pudding.

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    6. No, I would recognise your usage of jelly and jam for fruit concoctions. Jello sounds like jelly here - a fruit flavoured gelatin based dessert.

      Pudding is dessert but especially a hot dessert, especially what we would call "nursery pudding" or more simply, comfort food! Can you explain what your pudding is?

      Going out in a vest and pants would definitely cause raised eyebrows - at least!

      I prefer not to think about eating peanut butter and jam together.

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