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Yes another soup post.
I helped make some tomato and onion soup for our dinner this morning.
We grew the onions from sets and the tomatoes from seed.
The tomatoes have been reddening on a table in the polytunnel for a couple of weeks.
Regular readers will know we froze a load of ready chopped onions a few weeks ago. All we do is open a freezer bag and drop the onions in a pan with the tomatoes.
Twenty minutes later we liquified the soup and sat down and ateour fresh soup. It was lovely.
I lit the front room stove again last night. We are only burning logs in it at the moment. Could do with the Irish goverment reducing the carbon fuel taxes in this weeks budget. It's 36 Euros for 40Kg of solid fuel or 18 Euros for a small bag.
Anyone else making soup and are you lighting your stove to keep warm at night?
We haven't got a stove Dave. We have got a gas-fired boiler. Just recently, the missus has been making it come on with a timer. I didn't have soup for my lunch today - I had noodles to which I added some crispy onions and a few shreds of roasted chicken from yesterday's Sunday dinner. Bloody lovely!
ReplyDeleteSounds good YP. I can't afford oil for the central heating at the moment so we light the stove in the front room and burn logs that I bought at a car boot sale a few weeks ago. I hope we don't have a cold winter like 2010.
ReplyDeleteOur heating is not on yet, we have boosted it for a hour a couple of times, all our chimneys are blocked up. We have large tomatoes ripening in paper bags in our garage, and some peppers which needs using, so a tomato and pepper soup is on the menu with home made bread, nothing beats soup on cold days.
ReplyDeleteTomato and pepper soup sounds wonderful Marlene. Thankfully living in a rural area we can still have stoves and open fires.
DeleteWe will have to start thinking about buying some olive logs soon but hopefully we won't be burning them till well into November. Still not soup weather. Except for fish soup. For some reason it's a summer and a winter special. Yours sounds delicious
ReplyDeleteIvwish we could get some olive and orange logs Linda. I paid 5 Euros for a bag of larch logs at a carboot sale. Lidl also sell logs.
DeleteI had to switch on our central heating when we arrived back home yesterday. It was a shock to leave 27C and return to a wet and windy 11C. Winter duvets now on the bed too. Brrr...
ReplyDeleteI know JayCee. We did the same when we came back from Tenerife the week before last Christmas. I wonder how much it costs to heat our homes in Winter?
ReplyDeleteIt costs too darn much. I think we are due an oil top up soon. That should empty the holiday piggy bank.
DeleteI agree with you JayCee. When we had the solid fuel Stanley range we paid for logs and coal by the bag. Now it's a kings ransom to fill up the oil tank for a few months. We could do with an hibernation coast or learn how to fly south like the swallows do.😊
DeleteMight make a batch of soup some day soon, but it won't be from home-grown vegs, as I have no garden. And no stove to light either. I usually have more problems with my flat getting too hot in summer than very cold in winter, though...
ReplyDeleteAre there no allotments near you Dawn? I rented allotments in England and met some real characters and I miss the camaraderie you get from allotment folk.
ReplyDeleteWe have lit the fire the last few evenings and have been copping and splitting logs during the day, should have enough wood for the winter.
ReplyDeleteWe also have an oil fired range which is mainly for the central heating and cooking.Oil is at its lowest for over a year.
Could you plant some willow or other trees to supply your firewood and save that way? some trees are fast growing.
Kathy
You are so resourceful Kathy. I believe black ash is ready to harvest for firewood after only 8 years.
ReplyDeleteWith you on the fireplace Dave. Ours was great when we were burning wood obtained from tree cutting around our place and the neighbours. Now that we are buying it - not such a saving on winter heating costs.
ReplyDeleteFossil fuels are very expensive Tigger's Mum. Over here there is a carbon tax on these things we use to keep us warm. Ireland is very mild in terms of winter temperatures and we haven't had a lot of frost and snow since 2010.
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