Remember the Clangers and the Soup Dragon?
Jack Frost and the wife gave them a good painting last night. So I dug two of them up and topped and tailed them with my old bread knife.
Then I chopped them up with two spudatoes peeled and chopped and added a chopped onion and some garlic.
Any other Soup Dragons out there?
Northsider soup. I ate/drank two bowls of the stuff this morning. Just the ticket on a frosty cold January morning.
Why don't you show us your homemade soup recipe?
Oh yes, I remember The Clangers very well. I can even speak Clanger!
ReplyDeleteI do love good home made soup and leek & potato was always one of my favourites when we grew our own. These days it is mainly pea and ham or floppy veg.
You are Ireland's answer to Gordon Ramsey! "Grub Time With Dave"... "Chop up a feckin leek with a feckin spud and boil 'em. Voila - fecking leek and feckin spud soup!"
ReplyDeleteOliver Postgate is one of my heroes JayCee. He said The Clangers were just a family living in outer space. The soup today tasted so fresh. You can't beat home grown and homemade food.
ReplyDeleteIt's time to stop selling "Dave's Dogs" and start selling the soup YP. I won't be serving "Soup In The basket".
ReplyDeleteCould you share your recipe for a cheese sandwich?
DeleteHovis Granary with Lancashire white crumbly from the C.O.O.P. I can also rustle up vinegar butties and banana butties and my HP brown sauce butties are my favourite along with crisp butties and chip butties or even a chip muffin?
DeleteSounds like you enjoy fancy food. Are you really French?
DeleteThere are quite a lot of French
DeleteHuguenot descendants living in County Cork. Perhaps I could write a book called " Plain Grub For Cavemen In The 21st Century?
" Plain Grub For Cavemen In The 21st Century"
Deleteby Dave L'Escargot...
Chapter One - Hunks of Meat
Chapter Two - Chips
Chapter Three - Pudding
INDEX
Chapter Four - Doner Kebab.
DeleteChapter Five - Newcastle Brown Ale.
INDEX.
Noggin the Nog was my favorite. I loved Oliver Postgate. Grandson of George Lansbury. I am a bit too old for the Clangers. I don't make soups but sometimes open a tin of Heinz.
ReplyDeleteI remember Noggin the Nog Rachel. I didn't know the George Lansbury connection - thanks! I use to love Baxters soups. Cock a leekie and Mulligatawny especially. Something else I don't see over here. Perhaps I should make some? Heinz beans and Heinz soups are very good.
ReplyDeleteJust made a batch of carrot and leek...thanks to our neighbour scoring the Asda "whoopsies"...added some winter squash from the garden , sliced small tatties (reduced of course!) A tin of butter beans a few bits and bobs and there you are...soup for lunch plus nine boxed portions for the freezer...two or three will go to our neighbour!
ReplyDeleteHow resourceful of you and your neighbour GZ. Also by freezing you keep all the freshness in. Wish we had an Asda near us.
DeleteAnother soup story. Son#3 only likes cooked cheese. Son#1 does not like broccoli....daughter makes green broccoli and cheese soup for #3...and he loved it he made it for #1....and it went down a storm!! Now it's called green tree soup😄
ReplyDeleteYou should go on Dragon's Den with your Green Tree soup 🍲 😋.
ReplyDeleteI use stilton or Shropshire Blue when I make it...
DeleteThe kids growing up used to call broccoli Green Trees 😄
I miss English cheeses. We use to tell the kids that Brussel sprouts were baby cabbages.
DeleteLeek and potato is one of my favourite soups. Excellent on any day. There's no lemon juice in it, thank goodness, so Greek people don't eat it.
ReplyDeleteIn the end I didn't plant any leeks this year but they're very cheap and healthy looking at the supermarket.
I made the last of my Xmas bratwurst into curry today. Much better than soup!! Just need another packet from that German giant
Yes leek soup is an excellent soup Linda. It must be full of vitamins and beneficial ingredients to keep the coughs and colds away. Your Christmas Curry Bratwurst is a new take on Currywurst.
DeleteI just made a turnip soup. Chop a couple good sized turnips and drop them in a beef broth. Let them cook down with a little garlic and rosemary. Blend with stick blender. Return to pot. Add a bit of butter. Take two egg yolks, whip them up, mix them with a little of the hot broth, and then add the mix, slowly to the soup. Thin with cream (or half and half) to taste, salt and pepper and serve with a good crusty bread.
ReplyDeleteSounds and no doubt smells delicious Debby. Especially a newly baked crusty loaf of bread. Just what you need on a cold winter's day. The pigs ate the last of my Swedes.
ReplyDeleteThey'll have to go on to The Norwegians now.
DeleteOr maybe an Indian?
DeleteNo soup this time of year, but when winter rolls around again I will be filling the freezer. My favourite is pumpkin/sweet potato soup and a vegetable soup that sometimes has chicken in it and sometimes not. I remember making potato and leek a long time ago, it was a "creamy" recipe and tasted fine was seemed gluey.
ReplyDeletePumpkin sweet potato soup sounds good River.
DeleteWhat on earth is a vinegar buttie or a HP brown sauce buttie? I do know a buttie is a sandwich.
ReplyDeleteJust vinegar or brown sauce between two pieces of bread.
ReplyDeleteSounds too complicated for me.
DeleteHow do these culinary magicians think up these recipes?
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