Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The escapee

I made soup for lunch today, like I often do. Today was another new one, Irish Potato Soup. So, while my finely chopped onions sweated in a little butter, I peeled and diced some potatoes. Now, because I buy my local potatoes from the local farm shop, they come with local mud on, so I usually give them a good wash and peel them in the sink, often popping them onto the drainer till they're all done. I popped the diced potatoes into the pan to sweat with the onions and then decided to do a little washing up (occasionally I'm a tidy cook, not always) and to that, I had to empty the drainer first of the previous washing up, (tidy up until a point...). There it was. Behind the clean grill pan. An escapee. A peeled potato!

It was diced and sweating quicker than two shakes of a lamb's tail.

There is no escape in my kitchen...

And that is how exciting my life is. The Great Vegetable Escape.

Should have been yesterday really. Made Pea Soup yesterday...

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

But it's the little things like that that really do brighten the day.

Now if only a whole pan of peeled potatoes would magically appear in a pan of hot water on my cooker I'd be really happy. I'm totally lacking inspiration at the moment. Doesn't help that Ruth is right off her food - she's still suffering from her fluey thing that she had last week. :-(

Tonight's delight - pasta with prawns - they're pink, there's a _chance_ she might eat them...

And I can't be bothered to try anything more exciting.

Potato soup sounds good though - have you got any leftovers?

Louise said...

Actually, yes. Fast jet to the north of Scotland?!

Veggie Fajitas with Tomato Salsa, Sour Cream and Grated Cheese for tea. Fancy some?

Anonymous said...

Yes please, I'm on my way...

Louise said...

Oh, your jet must have been delayed. It was yum too.

Anonymous said...

Ruth says:

Save some for me. I know, I'm way too late - it's because my computer keeps crashing on me before I've posted my comments!

Anonymous said...

Ruth says:

Ha! Did it! Posted comment before computer crashed. Gggrrrrr - freakin' thing. I swear I'll 'do a Basil Fawlty' on it with the branch of a tree if it doesn't start behaving!

By the way, and not meaning no disrepec', I think that, strictly speaking, the potato is a tuber, and not a vegetable....

Anonymous said...

Ruth adds:

tuber? tuba?

Louise said...

Let's not be pedantic.

It was mushroom today. That's not a vegetable either, it's a funghi...

Anonymous said...

Ruth says:

... and you are a fun gal!

Groan!

I love mushroom soup.

Louise said...

I had restrained myself from that one.

The soup was a(nother) new one and I was a little dissappointed with it. The one I threw together the other day was better. I can't remember how I did it though.

Back to issues with the memory.

Anonymous said...

Ruth says:

Mushrooms: which variety do you use?

If we're talking soups, my mum makes a wonderful pea and mint soup - tastes infinitely better than it sounds. I could get the recipe if you like.... how about a sharing of soup recipes..... I'd forgotte how much I like soup!

Louise said...

We've had soup everyday for a week and we're having another today!

The brilliant thing about soup is that you can make one with almost anything you have in your cupboard and vegetable store. We usually have a chicken carcass in the freezer that I whip out and pop into a stock pot, I always have onions, carrots and occasionally celery, Bob's your uncle, I have a fab stock. I've made Brussel Sprout, Bacon and Cannellini Bean soup, replaced the brussels with Savoy Cabbage on one occasion, another bean soup with spinach added, absolutely allsorts. Always have peas in the freezer and they make a fab soup too and at the moment the mint in my pot by the back door is doing okay, so that gets thrown in too!

Can't beat a good soup.

Louise said...

Oh yes, back to your question. Mushrooms. On this occasion, I had some unusually, not too scaby mushrooms au ordinaire, but I like using nice, big field mushrooms, which have a good strong mushroomy flavour. Oddly enough. I think chanterelle and the like maybe a bit too delicate perhaps? Chestnut would make a nice change. The soup I made the other day was using up some sad little ordinary mushrooms I'd found at the bottom of the fridge and boy, they were tasty! Concentrated flavour due to being a tad wizzened perhaps.