Thread: Wifes home made vege soup

The beautiful wife and I have prepped a big vege soup this morning. Will feed the family for the next 2 nights, good cheap feed when you have a couple of teenage boys in the house. And yes,it contains pearl barley and bacon.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

The beautiful wife and I have prepped a big vege soup this morning. Will feed the family for the next 2 nights, good cheap feed when you have a couple of teenage boys in the house. And yes,it contains pearl barley and bacon.

2 essential ingredients.
Me Nan always started it off with an unhealthy amount of bacon bones, and pearl barley was a staple. I'd pick the celery out but we've been using the same method for 30+ years. Who knows how long it's been going through the family.

My beloved knocked out an absolute cracker of a pumpkin soup the other day, one of her pumpkins decided to start going mouldy around the stem so off with it's head and what to do with it...

Chopped into chunks (broke a carving knife and damn near took my finger off) and into the crock pot on medium for a day. Once thoroughly chopped, add paprika, spices and herbs etc (I think there was a bit of curry powder or chilli maybe, I'd have to check what got biffed in). Once cooking complete it was munched up with the stick blender and what a surprise.

Equally as good as anything I've had at top restaurants - you could sell it and have people coming back for more. She surprised herself I think!

Not a huge soup fan. Prefer something a little more solid. Stew is about as far as I usually go towards soup. Must be from those days as a kid eating that horrible alphabet soup. Yuk. . . .

if you chuck enough bits of meat into a soup it more or less becomes a stew LOL.

Yeah. Close. . .