Everyone has pots of soup on.....

[Dris]

according to my local FB mates:)

Funny how its the first thing you do when the weathers miserable.

Ive got split pea ,veg and chopped up franfurter soup on and it smell delish:)

Tattie and leek seems to be the fave so far....

Anyone else make soup for comfort/warming food and what do you make?

[AB Editor]

'tis time for a Guinness Stew tonight. I usually use it as a pie filler, and hide some Brie below the crust - but today it will be straight-up stew with some sour-dough bread and, of course, butter.

Good times!

Spare Ed

[Dris]

O happy days Ed.Im making stew for my husband coming home tonight (with mashed tatties;)) I dont have Guiness will Bud or wine do ?

Also off to lash soup on -tattie and leek tonight -he'll need warmed up:)

Had pastas sweetcorn chowder and it was magnificent -will def be a staple in my soup recipes nwo !!

[AB Editor]

I spotted this mackerel chowder which sounds good:

1 packet of smoked mackerel fillets
1 and a half pints (750ml) milk (whole or semi-skimmed)
Potatoes (say 4 medium-sized or 6 small)
2 leeks
1 onion
2 serving spoons of frozen sweetcorn
A quarter of a pint (125ml) single cream
1 tbsp flour
Dried parsley, roughly 2 tsps
Butter
Oil

Method
Peel and chop the potatoes into small chunks; wash and finely chop the onions and leeks.

Melt butter and oil in a large saucepan and gently brown the potatoes for a few minutes. Add the onions and leeks and fry for a few more minutes until the onion has softened, then stir in the flour and cook for another minute.

Add the frozen sweetcorn, pour in the milk with the cream and bring to the boil while you remove the skin from the mackerel and flake the fish, making sure there aren’t any bones.

Turn the heat right down and add the mackerel to the pan with the parsley, stir well and leave to simmer for about 20 minutes, or until the potatoes are just soft.
If you want to thicken the chowder at the end, add a little corn flour or 1 tbsp plain flour to another 2 tbsp cream. For a thinner consistency, just add more milk.

[AB Editor]

I think you could get away with most ales Dris, not sure about larger or wine though.

Spare

[mccfluff]

ui've got some left over roast gammon was thinginh along the lines of lentil and gammon soup, any recipes?

[Dris]

Spare -that mackerel one sounds brilliant.I buy the packets from the supermarket and just sit and pick away at the mackerel as a treat.Cheers for recipe -bet its ace :)

I'll have to get an ale in for the stew -as red wine would make it bourginnion which is delish but I havent tried the guinness one and think i'd like it.

O fluff -that one of the best soups -just lash the lentils in with potato to thicken and onion -dont put a stock in and dont salt-only pepper as a season as the gammon is salty.Then I blitz it to make a smooth soup with just the gammon as bits.
My daughter is on such a tight budget -both her and her flatmate only- 20 and 21yr olds- they do away fine surviving on soup -in fact they have people who come up for a bowl of soup and they always have nice fresh bread.So its a young persons thing as well -proud of them !! (what happened to pot noodles lol)

[mccfluff]

mmmmmm