Well Halloween has been and gone and the little pumpkins have been sat in the kitchen waiting to be used. I didn't get around to making the soup the other day, so I did it today instead.
It was a simple enough job to slice the pumpkins in half, remove the seeds ...
... and then chop them up a bit smaller and add them to the Remoska with a chopped onion, some celery and a couple of big fat garlic cloves. With a sprinkle of salt and pepper and then a glug of oil they were then left to their own devices for an hour while I read my way around blogland with my morning coffee.
Puttering away while I enjoyed my coffee.
Once everything was lovely and soft, I tipped the vegetables into a pan added some boiling water and a teaspoon of stock powder and left it to cook on for another 10 minutes before whizzing up to a lovely thick consistency.
So my two tiny pumpkins and their veggie friends gave me two gloriously colourful bowls of soup. One for lunch immediately and one for tomorrow ... if I can wait that long.
And my little Halloween display has changed for a while ...
... to this.
My painting, the one done by my son which is usually on the wall here is currently at the framers being framed, so I thought I could get away with a little blue-ish display for a while. I'm making good use of your card Sue. 😀
Sue xx
I'm trying to find something to do with mine - I'm not that fond of pumpkin soup. I wonder if it's nicer when roasted though. xx
ReplyDeleteIt's much nicer when roasted, especially if you add garlic and onion. It's a very rich flavour instead of a watery bland one.
DeleteEdible ornaments, that's the way to go, Sue! Your soup sounds (and looks) delicious and I love your display, the blue seascape painting is beautiful. x
ReplyDeleteI should have remembered to wash them, or at the very least dust them before the cooking though. Luckily, I got away with it and my soup wasn't even remotely dust flavoured!!
DeleteDo you peel them before/after cooking? (before pureeing them)
DeleteNope not peeled before or after, the skin literally melts away taking all the goodness into the soup ... and perhaps a bit of dust in my case ;-)
DeleteThe new display is lovely, Sue, is that embroidery in the frame?
ReplyDeleteDelicious looking soup too.
It's actually a little print of a flower on a scrap of fabric but with glitter added for texture, at a quick glance it does look embroidered. It's yet another framed card, one that I bought to send but couldn't bear to part with.
DeleteI can see why you didn't part with it, it's really pretty.
DeleteLooks like Sue's card deserves a little frame all of its own!
ReplyDeleteIt really does doesn't it.
DeleteGood for you. I have never made pumpkin soup. I may have to give that a try.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Honestly, it's delicious. I may have to replicate it ... but with a bigger pumpkin next time.
DeleteWaste not, want not. The soup looks delicious. And the seeds are sooo good when toasted. Xx
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough even though I like the pumpkin seeds that you can buy in the shops or that are on bread, I have never enjoyed home-cooked ones. I'm obviously doing something drastically wrong!!
DeleteThanks Sue. I'm so glad that the card has been recycled.
ReplyDeleteSue
It will be framed once I find a suitable frame, in the meantime like so many other things here, it's being left to its own devices. :-)
DeleteSorry I've missed some of your recent posts, but your soup looks wonderful. I also have some of those cute 59p pumpkins and I know I'm going to have to cut them up soon, but they are still so pretty. 🎃🎃
ReplyDeleteI thought you'd been missing for a while. I hope everything is okay in your neck of the woods. The pumpkins are just so lovely aren't they, and after tasting the soup I got from them I'm sorry I didn't buy a couple more make a bigger display.
DeleteTake care. xx
I make all our soup in the big Remoska and it really enriches the flavour because the veg are roasted. Must make a batch tomorrow as we ate the last portions this afternoon as a four oclock first course. Catriona
ReplyDeleteIt's such a cost-effective kitchen gadget for anything that you would normally roast or bake in the oven isn't it.
DeleteThe soup sounds tasty and fa cheaper than buying a tin these days. In Co-op they are £1.50 a can! Love the pictures at the end - the x-stitch? one looks so pretty.
ReplyDeleteI was shocked at the prices of the tinned soups from the Co-op, someone on YouTube was taste testing some of the vegan vegetable ones and the cheapest was £1.09, supposedly two portions but in his dish it as definitely only really enough for one person. Including the cost of the pumpkins ... which made it a lot more expensive than soups I would usually make at home ... I got two good portions for about 80p each.
DeleteNo x-stitch, one is just a paper card and the other a scrap of fabric with the flower printed on and then blue glitter on top. Very unusual and bought when we lived near Bodnant Craft Centre.