I cheated because I didn’t boil it. We were going out so I fried onions etc in olive oil and put them with the solid veggies in the crock pot. I added the greens and sage when we got in along with a tin of black eyed beans and tomatoes. Pepper to add. Peasant soup without a doubt. We’ll eat it with olive oil on toasted bread which we like. It looks colourful. Reds and greens. Autumnal. Thanks for the excellent prompt! Xx
We don’t grow many vegetables but we can buy the ingredients. We’re on holiday but in the week of our return I’ll try the recipe. And let you know how it goes. It reads like a fancy vegetable soup! Thanks for the wholesome blog. Xx
Marg it is indeed a vegetable soup! - albeit peasant rather than fancy. TM added more tomatoes last night (to a fresh batch not a 10-day old one!) and it was even better.
I've been experimenting with 'veg-scrap stock' recently, so was pleased to see this mentioned. I put everything for mine (except for potato peel and anything cabbage) in a bowl (or a bag in the freezer) then boil it all up and reduce it to 3x100gm. I freeze them and then reconstitute each block to about a litre when I need stock - does that sound about right?
The soup sounds delicious - sadly I can (no longer) eat anything beany 😕, but on a good day I can eat veg soup. And good organic sourdough is a staple for me - I shall experiment 🙂
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Sounds perfect, Janey. A good tip, the reduction to 3 x 100gms. The only reason ours doesn't have the traditional potato peel is because ours are all organic and the vits are in the skin, so we never peel them.
Do you think that even well-cooked and mashed beans would be no good? And does the same go for green lentils? – You could of course use quinoa... ;-)
:-(. Quinoa, relative of fat hen/orache so a grain or seed, is extremely high in protein and also gluten-free. If we can grow it in wet Finistère you probably could in wet Wales... or buy it. Hodmedod's in E Anglia grow and mail it. Haven't tried it for hummus, but I may do, just in case it works!
I doubt if I could grow Quinoa in Scotland, but thank you for that recipe - I'll be able to harvest just about all those ingredients from my veg garden. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your recipes too! A week tomorrow I'm heading to Iona for a few days and hoping for an Indian summer ...
Thanks for the delightful recipe - ribollita is a longtime favorite. I'm also impressed with your quinoa; how pretty! I've been thinking about growing it but haven't tried it yet. Does it require much fuss, or is it pretty easy to grow?
So you've probably got your own recipe? I love all these catch-all soups.
Isn't it lovely? SO easy to grow - didn't do anything except stake its rectangle last week as it started to flop. The test will be knowing when it's ready to harvest, threshing and drying it, and storing it... Amateurs at quinoa. Will report back!
Well, the first step is that my daughter turned up and happened to have a dozen very large sturdy paper bags in her car (she's a weaver who'd just been doing a market and these were in case she sold a load of ponchos!). That might sound like nothing, but I've been trying without success to find large brown paper potato sacks here for sale: zilch. So now we can hang them for drying and threshing!
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I cheated because I didn’t boil it. We were going out so I fried onions etc in olive oil and put them with the solid veggies in the crock pot. I added the greens and sage when we got in along with a tin of black eyed beans and tomatoes. Pepper to add. Peasant soup without a doubt. We’ll eat it with olive oil on toasted bread which we like. It looks colourful. Reds and greens. Autumnal. Thanks for the excellent prompt! Xx
Well wow Marg that sounds even better! Thank you for letting me know. Rx
We don’t grow many vegetables but we can buy the ingredients. We’re on holiday but in the week of our return I’ll try the recipe. And let you know how it goes. It reads like a fancy vegetable soup! Thanks for the wholesome blog. Xx
Marg it is indeed a vegetable soup! - albeit peasant rather than fancy. TM added more tomatoes last night (to a fresh batch not a 10-day old one!) and it was even better.
Thank you. Rx
Beautiful -- I can't wait to try your recipe, and think I'll give quinoa a go in my garden next year. It sure is pretty!
Thank you! Quinoa has been SO easy to grow, even though here in Brittany we've a lot of rain; and it's very high in protein.
I've been experimenting with 'veg-scrap stock' recently, so was pleased to see this mentioned. I put everything for mine (except for potato peel and anything cabbage) in a bowl (or a bag in the freezer) then boil it all up and reduce it to 3x100gm. I freeze them and then reconstitute each block to about a litre when I need stock - does that sound about right?
The soup sounds delicious - sadly I can (no longer) eat anything beany 😕, but on a good day I can eat veg soup. And good organic sourdough is a staple for me - I shall experiment 🙂
Wise words about our body telling us when we have ignored it long enough
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Sounds perfect, Janey. A good tip, the reduction to 3 x 100gms. The only reason ours doesn't have the traditional potato peel is because ours are all organic and the vits are in the skin, so we never peel them.
Do you think that even well-cooked and mashed beans would be no good? And does the same go for green lentils? – You could of course use quinoa... ;-)
Yes, little blocks of concentrated stock tuck away in the freezer nicely.
Quinoa for my protein? No, can't eat any beans these days, really miss all things lentil. And home-made hummus 😕
:-(. Quinoa, relative of fat hen/orache so a grain or seed, is extremely high in protein and also gluten-free. If we can grow it in wet Finistère you probably could in wet Wales... or buy it. Hodmedod's in E Anglia grow and mail it. Haven't tried it for hummus, but I may do, just in case it works!
I thought the picture looked like 'fat hen'! I keep not getting around to eating quinoa, and just living off porridge and home-made sourdough 🙄
I doubt if I could grow Quinoa in Scotland, but thank you for that recipe - I'll be able to harvest just about all those ingredients from my veg garden. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your recipes too! A week tomorrow I'm heading to Iona for a few days and hoping for an Indian summer ...
Well, it's wet here and it grows fine; and bearing in mind it's a high-altitude crop, who knows??
Btw there are other recipes scattered throughout my Substack, but so far I've failed to file them sensibly. I might do that at some stage.
Oh I'm so envious of your going to Iona. Sometimes I've been there in September, and it's always been gentle... Enjoy your time there.
Thanks for the delightful recipe - ribollita is a longtime favorite. I'm also impressed with your quinoa; how pretty! I've been thinking about growing it but haven't tried it yet. Does it require much fuss, or is it pretty easy to grow?
So you've probably got your own recipe? I love all these catch-all soups.
Isn't it lovely? SO easy to grow - didn't do anything except stake its rectangle last week as it started to flop. The test will be knowing when it's ready to harvest, threshing and drying it, and storing it... Amateurs at quinoa. Will report back!
Thanks Laura.
I don't have a recipe so much as a method, and I love to see how other people put together their versions. I look forward to further quinoa news!
Well, the first step is that my daughter turned up and happened to have a dozen very large sturdy paper bags in her car (she's a weaver who'd just been doing a market and these were in case she sold a load of ponchos!). That might sound like nothing, but I've been trying without success to find large brown paper potato sacks here for sale: zilch. So now we can hang them for drying and threshing!
More anon...
Well done growing quinoa
Thank you!