We had the most delicious soup for lunch today and it cost almost nothing... made from yesterdays leftovers of course...
As Rik's brother joghn is with us for a couple of weeks we are eating a more 'English' diet.. I have to ease him into our food regime gently...
So yesterday I cooked him the 'Sunday Roast' that he is used to at home, a large piece of Roast Pork, roast spuds, carrots, and french beans and cabbage, all from the garden. (or frozen in my freezer from our garden)
We all had a large meal, then I cut up what meat was left into two bags and froze it, the bone is cooking away with some veg at the moment as stew for dinner today...the other two bags will each do a meal later ...
There was a lot of veg leftover... so today I sweated an onion and three cloves of garlic in some olive oil, chopped the french beans small, plus a big handfull of the cooked cabbage (the rest is in the stew) and a few cooked carrots, simmered them in a little water with a couple of small potatoes chopped small, to this I added a veggie stock cube and simmered till the potatoes were soft... I then blitzed the lot with a hand blender. Added a sprinkle of sea salt and a good teaspoon of cumin powder.... mmmmmmnn yum... It was thick and creamy and absolutely lovely! With some homemade soda bread, a great lunch..
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