Soup Tuesday Blog Posts

• Locro da Papa - Ecuadorian Potato and Cheese Soup
  on Feb 3, 2015 in Coriander Cumin Ecuadorian Paprika potato recipe Ricotta soup
  Once you get into a serious cookery habit, you very quickly start to accumulate 'stuff'.  At last count I had 7 varieties of vinegar, 9 types of rice and 5 kinds of lentils. My spice cupboard gets even more full with each passing trip to the sho...
• Quibebe - Brazilian Squash Soup
  on Jan 27, 2015 in Butternut Squash Celery Onion potato Quibebe recipe soup
  Sometimes when I'm looking for soups to make, the most childish things attract me.  For instance, when I was researching South American soups (you'll remember that I'm a little excited by them right now) I was drawn to this recipe simply by its...
• Creamy Sweetcorn Soup
  on Jan 22, 2015 in Celery potato recipe soup Sweetcorn Tomato
  There's an age-old debate in soup-making circles - where is the line between Soup and Stew? It is fought over as much as 'What constitutes a proper pie?*' and 'How do you pronounce Scone/Chorizo**'The debate mostly seems to centre around the ration o...
• Chupe de Maní - Ecuadorian Peanut Soup
  on Jan 20, 2015 in Celery Chupe de Maní Ecuador Peanut potato recipe soup Tomato
   Waaaay back last year, when everyone was talking about ball kicking tournaments, I was part of a small group of dedicated bloggers who took part in the World Cup Food Challenge.  This (I'm sure you remember) was a blog based challenge to c...
• Green Bean and Almond Soup
  on Jan 15, 2015 in Almonds Green Bean recipe soup white wine
  The inspiration for this soup came from nothing more than "I have green beans, I don't need them for anything else.  Can I turn them into soup?" From there my mind went to 'green beans and... erm... what goes with green beans?'  Then I reme...
• Roasted Red Pepper and Carrot Soup
  on Jan 13, 2015 in Carrot Onion recipe Red Pepper soup
  I just realised that all the soups I've blogged so far this year have been vegetarian recipes (assuming you use veggie stock, although I sometimes cheat and use chicken just to give it that extra bit of flavour)  This wasn't an intentional thing...
• Leek, Potato and Blue Cheese Soup
  on Jan 9, 2015 in Blue Cheese Cambazola Leeks potato recipe soup
  Cheese. It's a serious business. And we here at Soup Manors eat more cheese at Christmas than at any other time of the year.  Mainly because we do nothing but sit around watching all 6 Lord of the Rings movies, drinking enormous quantities of re...
• Roasted Beetroot, Garlic and Goats Cheese Soup
  on Jan 7, 2015 in Beetroot Celery garlic Goats Cheese Onion recipe soup Thyme
  Beetroot.  You can just tell that anything that brightly coloured has GOT to be packed full of goodness, vitamins and E numbers.  No wait, I'm pretty sure that one of those isn't true**Actually, Betanin, or E162 is an red glycosidic food dy...
• Butternut Squash, Ginger and Orange Soup
  on Jan 6, 2015 in Butternut Squash Chilli Coconut Milk Cumin Ginger Orange
  Disease and illness have been stalking the Soup household for weeks now.  Every room in the house is strewn with discarded boxes of potions pills and medicines.  Enough cough sweets have been bought to make the pharmacist think that I may b...
• Sopa de Ajo
  on Oct 30, 2014 in Chorizo ciabatta egg garlic Paprika recipe soup
  Inspiration for soups comes from many places.  For this one it was as simple as Mrs Soup telling me that she fancied a soup with eggs poached in it.  So off I went to the interwebs to do a bit of research and that's where I came across this...
• Kale Soup
  on Oct 29, 2014 in Kale recipe soup
  After my last blogpost I had a few comments about my maligning of kale (although it's funny, people seem quite happy to cast disparaging words against offal and few raise their voices to come to its aid...) so I thought that I'd have a go at making a...
• Indian Lambs Liver Soup
  on Oct 23, 2014 in Chilli Coriander Cumin garlic Ginger Lambs Liver Offal Onion recipe soup Tomato Turmeric
  I love offal.  Two of my favourite meals of all time are Steak and Kidney Pie and Liver & Onions (Is this the diet of an old man?).  If I'm in a restaurant and there's a dish containing any form of offal at all, I'm all over it.  O...
• Beetroot Rasam
  on Oct 14, 2014 in asafoetida Beetroot Coriander Cumin fenugreek Lentils Rasam Mustard recipe seeds soup Tamarind
  I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with beetroot.  On one hand, beetroot risotto is one of the greatest things ever, on the other is that lingering taste that can only be described as earthy.  Or to be less charitable, I made a beetro...
• Parsnip and Sweet Potato Soup
  on Oct 7, 2014 in Coriander Onion Parsnip recipe soup Sweet Potato Yoghurt
  It's October!  Where did the summer go? Still, now it's time to pack up your shorts and pull out those woolly jumpers, that can only mean one thing - it's soup season again (aka The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year)I was in two minds  about...
• Papas Rellenas Colombianas - WCFC2014 : Colombia
  on Jul 8, 2014 in Colombia WCFC2014 World Cup Food Challenge
  This is my last entry for the World Cup Food Challenge of 2014, and at least one of my teams got through to the quarter finals - Colombia.  Over the (admittedly brief) course of this challenge, during my research and cooking the dishes, I've fal...
• Avgolemono -WCFC2014 : Greece
  on Jun 27, 2014 in Avgolemono chicken Greece soup WCFC2014 World Cup Food Challenge
  The second country that made it through to round 2 from Group C is Greece (Not The Ivory Coast, which is both a shame - as I'd bought the ingredients for an Ivorian soup as it looked like they would get through and I'd done my research, and a blessin...
• Ajiaco - WCFC2014 : Colombia
  on Jun 26, 2014 in Ajiaco Colombia soup WCFC2014 World Cup Food Challenge
  And so Team Soup head into the second round with our heads held high, unlike *some* teams I could mention, where the two qualifying teams get a second crack of the whip.  And because we are Team Soup, this 2nd round will henceforth be known as T...
• Kedjenou - WCFC2014 : Cote D'Ivoire
  on Jun 18, 2014 in Ivory Coast Kedjenou WCFC2014 World Cup Food Challenge
  Today's dish in the World Cup Food Challenge is from the Ivory Coast, and is the last of the first round dishes I'll be cooking.  Whichever teams go through to the next round will get another dish, those who go home, well... I'm never eating any...
• Souvlaki - WCFC2014 : Greece
  on Jun 17, 2014 in Greece Pork Souvlaki WCFC2014 World Cup Food Challenge
  Our trip round the great (and not so great) footballing nations of the world has reached number 3 in Group C, and as is customary, we'll start with some fun facts about Greece1. Greek citizens are required by law to vote in elections.  This is p...
• Japanese Feast - WCFC2014 : Japan
  on Jun 16, 2014 in Japan WCFC2014 World Cup Food Challenge
  Mrs Soup is a bit of a Japan-o-phile, so I turned over responsibility to her for this dish.  I was good and didn't even hang round in the kitchen, fussing and 'helping' like I often do when someone else is cooking for me.  What I got in ret...