grape tomatoes, because I had them
large onion, lots of great flavour!
vegetable broth base, cause I'm too lazy to make my own (and en français)
 
few stalks of celery
carrots
cabbage!
try and stuff it all into the pot
cook at medium temp for a while
devour
I don't really add any herbs or spices to my soups, most the time I
just make a pot and eat it for a few meals. Little pepper on top,
sometimes add chicken. If I have other veggies, I add them, if
not, then I just make sure I have cabbage and onion for sure.
Broccoli gets mushy if you add it too soon... I just use a variety each
time.
 | Mmmm, you make me crave soup....and Mel. :D Nice pic!
I think I will go throw some veggies on now! |
 | nice looking soup. I make something similar, except I sauteed the veggies first sometimes. Still, looks damn good :D. |
 | This is a keeper, and I love the presentation! |
 | I just like putting everything in and letting them cook together, but whatever suits your fancy, right? |
 | When you come visit me and rest, will you cook for me? I will be your groupie. |
 | Mmmmm looks so good, I could lick the screen. :P ;)
Actually it looks so good I am going to snag your recipe. :) |
 | I find that combining celery, carrots and cabbage creates a soup that's a bit too sweet for my liking. So adding a few chillies (hot peppers) and some lemon juice or rice vinegar balances it a bit better.
This is a killer weight loss soup, by the way . |
| simplysusan wrote on Nov 20, '05, edited on Nov 20, '05  I don't even know if it qualifies as a recipe, but feel free ;)
Someone somewhere else said they put a tablespoon of tomato paste in their soup and I thought that was a brilliant idea!  I cook "garbage can" style. I put whatever I have in the frig in my soups and stews. Rich said I don't cook well if I use an actual recipe from a cookbook but when I cook out of the g.c. things come out really great.
Tomato paste is a brilliant idea, it adds just the right amount of salt, sweet and acidity. |
 | mivox wrote on Nov 20, '05, edited on Nov 20, '05 Mmmm. Just made a cabbage-celery-bamboo-shoot spicy egg drop soup. After looking at your pics, all I could think about was the napa cabbage in the fridge. :-)
(BTW - That is a stupendously cute photo of you!) |
| How many different colored surfaces do you have in your kitchen? |
| mivox wrote on Nov 20, '05, edited on Nov 20, '05 I'd love to hear your recipe for that soup! Recipe? hehe... umm... More or less:
6 cups of water
2 tbsp of "Better than Bullion" chicken paste stuff
1 1/2 tsp dashi granules*
a gurgle/splash of rice vinegar*
1 tsp garlic-chili paste*†
a large squiggle of Siracha sauce*† (it comes in a squeeze bottle ;-)
~1 tsp dried fried garlic (or garlic powder)†
2 stalks of celery - sliced
~2 cups of thin-sliced cabbage
3 small green onions (white part chopped into cooking soup, green part sliced on top of finished soup)
1 egg
1 small can bamboo shoots, drained
Put it all in a pot (except the egg) and cook until the veggies are the texture you like.
Whisk egg until yolk & whites are mixed.
Scoop veggies into a bowl.
Stir broth while slowly pouring in mixed egg.
After a minute or two (when egg is set) dump veggies back into pot.
Scoop into bowls and sprinkle with green onion tops.
*All this stuff can be found in pretty much any asian grocery (I found the 'fried garlic' flakes in an asian grocery too, but I'd never seen that before...)
†Add garlic and spicy stuff to taste, of course!
I don't think I'm forgetting anything. It would be pretty sad if I did, considering I cooked it just an hour or so ago... hehe. |
| thanks! I can't wait to make it! |
 | You look gorgeous, darling! And you already know how much I love your cooking with Melanie photojournal posts! *kiss* |
| If i see this soup once again tonight, i swear I will go running (literally running, I don't have the car) in my pj's to the store to get the ingredients. I must stop the salivating. |
 | oh! sounds delicious. that's a good idea for today's lunch... and i have all the ingredients in the kitchen *snatches recipe* :) tabasco would be worth a try, but i don't have it at home, so i'll try it with fresh ginger.
thanks a lot for all the cooking ideas you're posting! :) |
| dianica wrote on Nov 21, '05, edited on Nov 21, '05 I'll be posting muffins as soon as I find my recipe. *grin* It's lost in my bedroom at the moment. oh great. i can never have enough of those muffin recipes! :D
a few weeks ago i tried one with apples and caramel *sigh* and one with chocolate and caramel :) lets see if i find those recipes... |
 | Oh looks yum! gota try it! :) |
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