Preparing for Winter V

quidsy

Main fridge freezer is being defrosted and have taken out the last food in there. Made soup with the bag of frozen broccoli and pack of Cheddar, will do a korma with the ys quorn chicken style pieces and will make a pie for tomorrow and mince pies with the 3 ys rolls of shortcrust pastry. Once fridge freezer is back running will make a start on the 2nd. It's rank so really not looking forward to it.

bossymoo

Ooh broccoli cheese soup sound lovely!

quidsy

Was delish. Now eating a very decent quorn korma. Fridge freezer is sparkling and more importantly, empty and ready for Christmas shop.

Eenymeeny

bossymoo wrote: »

Ooh broccoli cheese soup sound lovely!

I was thinking the same thing! Any chance of a recipe please? (I'm already thinking that cauliflower cheese soup would be good too:D)

rufydoofyM

I make cauliflower cheese soup.

I cook the cauli in boiling unsalted water, just enough to cover.
Whilst it's cooking I make a bechemel cheese sauce.
(We also add plenty of pepper.) The stronger the cheese the less it needs and so it's great for using up old cheese.

Next I drain the slightly undercooked cauli, but keep the water.

I use a masher to brake it up and then add to the cheese sauce and stir in adding enough water to dilute to a soup consistency. Cook for a further 5 mins, serve and enjoy.

When it goes cold it will set, but is just as good the next day or frozen and reheated. It does usually need a bit more water or milk though when reheating and needs stiring to avoid burning on the bottom.

I also do broccoli this way and a mix of both.

Nice with crispy bacon bits on top or croutons and sometimes I add a handful of frozen peas to the pot.

I often turn left over veg in cheese sauce into soup:D

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All my family came yesterday, children, their DH`s, grandchildren and not one had a cold. We are cook a hoop as we always catch whatever the children have, only worse. I was so so tired last night but we are religiously taking the hm elderberry syrup, every day. Last one will leave this morning and dh and I will be flopped the rest of the day. The older we get, the harder it gets but was lovely all the same and nice to think that they can all have their family christmases at home without any travelling or rushing to get food for guests. I have done christmas for 42 years then last year decided that I would do a gathering pre-christmas instead, it worked so well and again this year, a buffet for food and drinks. Today I am going to plan our christmas viewing or radio, knowing that we will have peace and quiet over the holiday

I was catering for extreme paleo, veggie. omnivores and children, all in one go, was tough

icontinuetodream

Happy Solstice!!! :beer:

Busy day yesterday getting a lot of the food done for today - still have loads to do today for dinner (and will be cooking a breakfast as soon as the troops arise from their respective pits!!) but hoping that everything is sorted and ready by midday

Frugal lifestyle starts properly tomorrow....must admit that it will be nice to have the house to myself!! :rotfl:I am going to get the sewing machine down tomorrow and see if I can find out what sort of cottons I need to buy for it....I will also sort out all the spare clothing and get it ready for use - I'm thinking that I will have to use quite a bit of it for stuffing of draught excluders etc as there are a lot of old t-shirts there....it will all help though!!

I had the open fire on last night for the first time this winter - it was so lovely - I am really looking forward to having another one today!! All free wood too....can't be bad!!

quidsy

One diced onion, bag of frozen broccoli 1ltr chicken stock (can be veg but I only had chicken) bring to boil then simmer till soft, zap with hand blender put back on hob pour in 150mls milk and approx 100g grated cheese, let cheese melt, add more if you prefer cheesier taste. Season with salt and pepper if prefer. Serve with more cheese or croutons

Eenymeeny

Thanks for the soup recipes, they look delicious and easy enough for me to follow! :T
I recently curdled celery soup, which is the current favourite, by letting it get too hot when reheating. Soup containing milk is new to me, I've always just chucked in any veg I had available.:o
(I did manage to rescue it by blitzing it with a stick blender and warming very carefully)

Fruball

Eenymeeny wrote: »

Thanks for the soup recipes, they look delicious and easy enough for me to follow! :T
I recently curdled celery soup, which is the current favourite, by letting it get too hot when reheating. Soup containing milk is new to me, I've always just chucked in any veg I had available.:o
(I did manage to rescue it by blitzing it with a stick blender and warming very carefully)

2 teaspoons of cornflour blended with a little milk or water stirred in and brought gently to the boil will often save a curdled soup. not always though. I once made a huge pan of what looked like vomit. It went down the toilet (I didn't eat it first!)