I have a new house!
(The capsicum bushes were a big selling point. Drawn in gimp.)
M and I have been nestling into our new territory by cooking. On our first weekend, M made a gloriously tasty batch of croissants. Ooooh, croissants: you taste even better when you are made in celebration of a new oven. [...]
Well you can’t.
But you can get closer to awesomeness through making this fantastic roast vegetable soup. It was cold, dashed cold, when I got up this morning. 1.8°C, the reliable Bureau of Meteorology website informs me. And that, my friends, is enough to encourage me to make soup. Spicy, rich, lush, roast vegetable soup. Now, [...]
Man, do I love soup. Like, a ridiculous fondness for soup. I treat it as some sort of magic elixir, because it’s full of herbs and vegetables and salt (yes, salt is magical). I’m a raving hippy trapped in a suburban location and soup sings out to the Earth-healing streak in me.
I think of soup [...]
Oh soup, how I love you.
Still unwell, so I’m turning to the most nourishing thing I can think of. If baking and the scent of spices calms me, making soup makes me feel like I’m healing myself. I think I must feel like I’m channeling my Inner Wholesome Pagan Wise Woman. Or Inner Peter Rabbit. Wait, [...]
I think my favourite cooking techniques are the slowest. Today I slow-roasted some red capsicums and tomatoes:
(mmmmm, can’t you hear the sizzling?…I rubbed them with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and salt and pepper, and then left them at 150°C for about an hour). Then I chopped up some carrot, garlic, chillies, ginger and onion, and [...]
Also taggedMan, I love soup. I don’t stop making it in spring and summer, either. I charge on through and soup my way through the warmer months (although I admit making roast capsicum soup is a bit of a trial when the house is already more than 40°C). I usually lean towards the thick, tomatoey end [...]
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