Soup on a cold winters day, waht could be more satisfying? My step-kids love soup and what a great way of getting them to eat vegetables. I am by no means a chef i just love food and love to cook it. I dont follow recipes to well infatc that is why i dont really do puddings. With puddings you have to follow recipes to get things to rise, set, thicken and so on and i am more of a shove it in and see what it taistes like, i like to experiment. If you have seen the film rattoulie then im more like that especialy when it comes to soups.

Whenever i make a new soup i never tell anyone what is in it, if i did then my fussy family would turn their noses up, so i wait until they have ate it all and they are pleasantly surprised.

If you are a soup lover then experiment with me, you wont go back to tinned soups afterwards!

Cheese and Broccoli

2 Vegetable stock cubes
1 large onion
broccoli
spring onions
brown sauce
flour
cheese slices or grated cheese
pepper salt
butter

Bring to the boil your stock adding all the chopped vegetables, mashing as they soften. When soup has arround half hour left add a tiny knob of butter and sieve a small cup of flour. Add the cheese and mash continuesly so the flour does not clump. Add the salt, pepper and sauce as desired taiste.

Country Vegetable Soup

You will need
2 veg stock cube
salt
pepper
6 carrots peeled and chopped
2 onions chopped
handfull of broccoli florets
2 leeks chopped

Bring to the boil a pan of water adding the stock cubes,salt,pepper This is your soup stock

Add the onions,broccoli,carrot and leeks cover and simmer for approx 2hrs.

Whilst soup is simmering mash occasionaly as the veg is softening

If more salt is needed add as taiste requires.

Blend or Mash

No fancy tools needed for these soups just a big pan, big spoon and a blender or masher.

I prefer to mash my soups as the ingrediants begin to congeal and soften in the pan, one reason being that i can't be bothered to wash the blender afterwards and secondly i prefer my soups chunky but you substitute the hand held potatoe masher for a blender if you like, depends how you like your soups.

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