Fridge Bottom Soup

[Vagus]

Have just made a huge pan of this with week old carrots, leeks, celery and the leftover broccoli and cauliflower cheese from last night (there’s not usually leftovers but it was a canon ball of a cauli and a huge head of broccoli).
Added a chicken stock thing, half a beef stock thing, and some heat with a bit of chilli sauce. And snapped in some vermicelli pasta.
Will be having it with sundried tomato bread.
Yum, just what we need on a cold dark evening.

[barry1010]

Lovely, I make a lot of soup.

[Vagus]

I do too Barry, such a great way of using veggies a bit past their best. No two of my soup creations turn out the same, I just use what’s there and add whatever seasonings appeal on the day.

[barry1010]

Same, although I do buy celeriac specifically to make soup, it’s on in the reduced bin at my greengrocer

[Smowball]

How funny, I did exactly the same thing a month or so ago. Doubt I could recreate the same thing as it was literally odds and ends of veg etc, but tasted good lol

[barry1010]

Good way to use left over meat, too. I even put left over pasta in mine, pearl barley and lentils are good if you like a thick soup. Left over mash will disappear in a slow cooked soup but also thicken it.

[pastafreak]

If you've ever got a huge head of cauli that you don't know what to do with, make Cauli pizza.
If you want the recipe , I'll post when I get home.

[barry1010]

I don't eat pizza

[Vagus]

Thanks pasta but I really couldn’t be bothered doing that, plus I/we really like cauliflower just the way it is, especially with a bit of cheese sauce. A pizza in this house is a quick easy meal, chucked in the oven.
We eat so little meat these days I can’t remember when we had leftovers..apart from last nights chicken thighs, which we had in a sandwich today for lunch.
I used to blend any soup I made with a stick blender but lately I’ve not bothered, I just chop everything up fairly small and don’t drown it so there’s plenty of texture.

[pastafreak]

It's not pizza in the usual wheat based sense.
The base is made of cauli, eggs, mozzarella and herbs.
I thought vagus might be interested.

[pastafreak]

It's quite easy to do...but if you can't be bothered...OK.

[Vagus]

It does sound nice, pasta, and I know you don’t eat carbs, but the thought of faffing around with the cauli then making a sort of dough with it puts me off.

[237SJ]

Pasta - I was in the US for thanksgiving last year and we went to Aldi to stock up on pizza. Their cauliflower base pizzas were great. You couldn't tell the difference.

[pastafreak]

237...the one I make...you *can* tell the difference. Maybe that's why I like it.
I've heard of Aldi cauli pizza bases...but not come across them. Probably not available here...yet.

[Cloverjo]

Pasta, please post your pizza recipe.
Husband loves a pizza but he needs to up his veg intake. This might help.

[pastafreak]

Recipe posted!