Re: [london.food] Leek & Potato Soup

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From: Nigel Rantor
Subject: Re: [london.food] Leek & Potato Soup
Date: 11:16 on 30 Jan 2006
John Corcoran wrote:
> I find you can't beat cauliflower for adding a lovely creamy texture to a vegetable soup

Hmm...I am not a huge fan of the cauliflower, normally I only eat it in 
Aloo Gobi.

I did want to take some of the soup and liquidise it to make it smoother 
overall but alas, I do not own such a device so some vigourous mashing 
was all I could manage.


> -----Original Message-----From: Jenny Mather [mailto:jenny@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx]Sent: 29 January 2006 23:58To: london.food@xxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx: Re: [london.food] Leek & Potato Soup
> 
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
>>This one time, at band camp, Nigel Rantor wrote:>> > I'm just wondering if any of you deviants have any different riffs on> > the basic to impart?>> I can't think of any (savoury) soup that can't be improved with a good> quality, home made chicken stock.>i throughly agree dding proper stock can make quite a difference - thoughgenerally with soup just experimenting is really the best way and making anote of badnesses to not do them again.
> 
> some past soup badnesses include:using dried vvv spicy chillies in (carrot and chilli soup), heating in thepan before adding oil and onions to sweat, burnign your eyes with theacrid smoke and then almost killing you flatmate after having used toomany chillies (though some people think there cn never be too manychillies.... in this case there can be!)
> adding too much coriander not quite at the right time and turning pumpkinand coriander soup from a lovely thick yellowy oragne colour to green.
> current goodness is green soup: sweat onions and garlic and otherherbs/spices as desired (chillies can work!) add green things add potatoto thicken and then add stock leave until hungry. easy and yummy.
> jen
> 
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