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Entries Tagged as 'Soup'

Chilled Pea(+pod) & Mint Soup

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

Readers who feel more comfortable living their lives to a strict set of arbitrary rules will be pleased to discover this recipe adheres to the Four ‘S’ Dictum of Culinary Correctness: 1. Fresh peas are currently available – Seasonal. 2. Our balcony is resplendent with home-grown mint – Sustainable. 3. It’s eaten cold and it’s [...]

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Tags: Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Butterbean Soup?

July 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments

The question mark is there because if eaten immediately this is a thick wholesome soup, but if left in the fridge overnight and eaten cold, it miraculously transforms into a tasty bean salad. Two different foodstuffs for the price (and effort) of one. Well bargain, innit.

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Tags: Side Dish · Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · salad

Chickpea Soup

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

The chefs at our flagship eatery ‘Chez Yumblog’ are always on the look out for new and exciting ways to add the humble, nutritious and CHEAP chickpea to the menu. Consequently there was much excitement in the kitchen when Pascal le Plongeur nervously presented this recipe to the Kitchen Porter, who passed it on to [...]

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Tags: Snack · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Soupe au Pistou

April 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Here’s the story of a lovely lady, who was bringing up three very lovely girls. All of them had hair of gold, like their mother, the youngest one in curls.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · pasta

Gently Spiced Bean, Pasta & Prawn Soup

March 17th, 2010 · No Comments

This recipe is based on Yotam Ottolenghi’s legume noodle soup which, although delicious, we felt could be improved with the audacious addition of a little chilli heat and a handful or two of prawns.

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Tags: Main Course · Seafood · Soup · pasta

Carrot, Ginger & Honey Soup

March 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The winter clouds part and in the park a thin ray of sunshine illuminates a single crocus striving to push its trampled head above the prairie of discarded KFC boxes … spring has arrived in Bethnal Green. This beautiful natural wonder heralds the change of the seasons and signifies that perhaps it is time to [...]

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Tags: Snack · Soup · Starter

Colcannon Soup

February 7th, 2010 · No Comments

The recent bracing wave of cold and snow prompted a frenzy of soup making here at Yumblog Towers. Of the many and tasty varieties produced few warmed the cockles more than this Colcannon, which is rich, smooth, buttery and fundamentally Bubble and Squeak in an easy to ingest liquid form. So good you’ll want to [...]

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Cream of Mushroom Soup

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Soups are always tricky to photograph and mushroom soup, being the colour and consistency of weetabix-based gruel is particularly unphotogenic. So by way of a diversion, here is an ant’s-eye view of a random mushroom (or toadstool) which may (or may not) be delicious (or lethal).

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Tags: Mushrooms · Soup · Starter

Variation on Seupa Vapellenentse

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Kale, Cheese & Bread Soup For what is essentially a soggy cheese and cabbage sandwich, this is very, very tasty.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · cheese

Savoury Rhubarb Soup

June 8th, 2009 · No Comments

I know what you are thinking. Rhubarb soup? Savoury rhubarb soup? Never heard of that before. Sounds intriguing. Could be tasty. Could be unpleasant. Could be a toxic coupling of sour fruit and salty meaty water. Must get some rhubarb and give it a go. Well that’s what I thought anyway. Besides, the recipe was [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · unusual foods

Cucumber Soup No.2 with Wasabi Pea Relish

May 10th, 2009 · No Comments

As you might have guessed, I got a job lot of cucumbers from the market – three eye-wateringly large shafts of Cucumis Sativus for a credit crunching quid. Unlike the previous version, this soup is entirely prepared in the blender and requires no cooking – just a blender.

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Cucumber Soup No.1

May 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Funny how you wake up one morning and decide that the thing you want to do most in the world (ever) is to make cucumber soup. Maybe it’s a form of neurosis that all food bloggers share and perhaps writing these blogs is a therapeutic, legal and relatively harmless outlet for our collective obsession. Who [...]

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Brussels Sprout & Caramelised Onion Soup

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

I didn’t have high hopes for this soup when I started it, mainly because it contains little more than the humble sprout and onion. However, it turned out to be quite a clever ‘everyday’ soup and would be an ideal way to use up any sprouts you might have knocking around from Christmas. It’s a [...]

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Lemon Dhal Soup

February 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

It’s MasterChef final week, yeah. Such a shame that the nice Greek guy was dumped last Thursday as he was our favourite, we actively liked him. Now it’s down to the young one, the posh one and the beardy baldy cry baby one who sounds like Tony Blair. The posho is bound to win, but [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Cauliflower & Cheddar Soup

February 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments

… or cauliflower cheese in liquid form. A perfect winter warmer for the snowiest (and therefore the most exciting) day in 18 years.

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese

Onion Soup

January 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

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Tags: Main Course · Rant · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Fisherman’s Soup with Aioli Toast

January 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I came across this Mitch Tonks recipe on the excellent BBC ‘Get Cooking‘ website. If this dish is anything to go by, fishermen eat exceedingly well.

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Seafood · Soup

Honeyed Tomato Soup

January 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Phwaaar! Great flavour combinations. You’ve got the sweetness of the tomatoes, then an explosion of fragrant basil, finishing with the floral kiss of honey. Yes, MASTERCHEF!! has returned to our screens. Actually this is a delicious and unusual dish. If you can only summon the enthusiasm to cook one thing this year, make sure it [...]

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Pot-au-feu

December 13th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Traditionally this dish was a way of using cheaper cuts of meat and worthy root vegetables and was kept topped up and bubbling away over an open fire indefinitely. This is a gentrified version using a recipe from the archetypal gentleman himself, Gordon (Cheat ‘n’ two veg) Ramsay.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Vegetarian

Potato and Oatmeal Soup

December 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

What could be more comforting and warming than soup? Porridge perhaps. So why not combine the two and make this silky smooth winter treat. Remember to take a photograph before you eat all the soup

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Borsch

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments

A family gathering in Suffolk this weekend meant I was able to plunder my sister’s vegetable patch and return home with a binbags worth of wonderful homegrown produce. Along with a variety of beans, carrots and onions, my swag consisted of several kilos of beetroot as big as your face. The obvious thing to do [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Russian · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Minestrone Soup

September 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments

As 10 CC once said: “Life is a minestrone wrapped up in Parma ham/cheese. Death is an old D’Artagnan, suspenders in deep freeze”. Or something like that. Purple Podded Peas from Gwydwr’s garden

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese

Garlic Soup with Harissa

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Two days after the end of our holiday, British Airways very generously and efficiently returned our luggage. We celebrated with a bowl of Yotam Ottolenghi garlic soup. Britain’s favourite soup.

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian

Almond & Grape Gazpacho

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We’ve gone cold soup crazy this month. This particular variety is based on the classic Ajo Blanco but with the cheeky addition of cucumber and watercress.

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian · unusual foods

Avocado Gazpacho

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

What could herald the arrival of summer more than a big bowl of cold soup. Wasps perhaps. Or possibly sharing the big bowl of cold soup with a wasp. A wasp in shorts. Anyway, if you’ve bothered to read the posts below, you’ll know I am intimately familiar with the red, tomato-based gazpacho, however, up [...]

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Tags: Bread · Main Course · Outdoors · Soup · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian

Gazpacho

June 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Summer reluctantly and briefly visited the UK this weekend, and so as a gesture of thanks to the mighty sun god Ra we held up this delicious offering – the first gazpacho of the cold soup season.

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Tags: Bread · Main Course · Outdoors · Soup · Starter · Tapas · Vegetarian · salad

Stinging Nettle Soup

May 27th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve always liked the idea of free food, and cooking a meal with ingredients foraged from nature’s bountiful larder holds a romantic and atavistic appeal. Sadly Bethnal Green doesn’t offer many opportunities for living off the land. You’ll struggle to find a morel growing among the KFC cartons and general crap along the Mile End [...]

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · foraged · unusual foods

Squash Soup with Emmental and Cannellini Beans

May 6th, 2008 · No Comments

What to do with a squash, that eternal question. Should I bake it, fry it, foam it, render it into a mere suggestion as accompaniment to something less orange, or should I take the soup route. Like the silk road but gloopier, the soup route will inevitably involve stock, garlic and onions, the very essence [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese

Jerusalem Artichoke Soup

April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There were mixed feelings about this recipe at yumblog cottage. One of us had never had Jerusalem artichokes before and so was keen to give them a try, while the other was force-fed them as a child and is still suffering from flashbacks. However, as with most things in life, novelty won out over experience [...]

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Tags: Soup · Vegetarian · unusual foods

Asparagus Soup

March 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

The British asparagus season starts on 30th April and ends just eight short weeks later on 25th June, midnight – roughly. Fortunately it must be in season somewhere else in the world at the moment as the shops are awash with the stuff at £1.50 a bunch. Generally I prefer it as nature intended, au [...]

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Cauliflower Soup with Red Pepper Ginger Sauce

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Cauliflowers are very much in at the moment. Plus, like snow flakes, crystals, mountain ranges, lightning, river networks, pulmonary vessels and broccoli, they are a fine example of fractal geometry in nature. So when you’re cooking this remember to keep in mind D = Log N(L) divided by the log of 1 over L. Enjoy.

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Parsley Soup

March 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments

My fellow blogger recently bought me ‘Roast Chicken and Other Stories’ by Simon Hopkinson. Voted the ‘most useful cookbook of all time’ by somebody or other, it’s a superb book which is not only packed with inspirational recipes, but also makes excellent bedtime reading. It doesn’t have any photographs (usually a prerequisite for any cookbook), [...]

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Spicy Lentil & Coconut Soup

January 28th, 2008 · No Comments

A naked Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on the cover and a long and unnecessary interview with David ‘Call me Dave’ Cameron on the inside. This month’s Observer Food Monthly had one cock too many.

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Minted Pea & Lettuce Soup

January 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Happy New Year. It’s 2008 and it looks like the year ahead is going to be shit.

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January King Cabbage with Ricotta Toasts

November 26th, 2007 · No Comments

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Vegetarian · cheese

Celeriac & Chestnut Soup

November 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This one goes out to VJ ‘Mr Prudence‘ – anarchist, transphormetic blogger, psychic geographer, algorithmic obsessive and occasional ActionScript guru. The other day he confessed he was in possession of a celeriac and asked what he could possibly do with it. I’m afraid my advice was a dismissive “either mash it or chuck it in [...]

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Tags: Main Course · Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · unusual foods

Cabbage & Parmesan Soup

November 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

And then there was this other time when we had a cabbage in the veg box. Observant readers might notice a pattern of veg box-related dinners, indeed dinners built round one vegetable have become a regular occurrence. Not a bad thing as it makes you seek out new ways with seemingly old/tired/well trod/uninspiring ingredients.

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Tags: Soup · Starter · Vegetarian · cheese

Spicy Lentil Soup

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

Now there’s a thing. If you go to lentil.com you just get a crappy illustration of ‘Lenny the Lentil’ and an email link, lentil.co.uk doesn’t seem to have been registered, and lentil.org is the blog site of a senior network engineer called Robert Lister. I mention this only because I can’t think of an introduction [...]

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Stilton and Cider Soup with Goat’s Cheese Toasts

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments

If your local shop permits I advise a decent cider for this recipe – so put that White Lightning back on the park bench and try something tasty like this Henney’s Frome Valley Dry Cider.

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Smoked Haddock Chowder

October 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Flippin’ eck Tucker, one of the shops on the High Street is selling seven corn-on-the -cob for a pound and that is a bloomin’ bargain. Of course, sweetcorn is delicious eaten just as it comes, boiled or barbecued and simply accompanied with a knob of slowly melting butter, however tonight we decided upon this smoked [...]

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Tags: Fish · Main Course · Soup