A Plate Or Two Of Pottage

 

With Cyclone Gabrielle making its way onto the country, many people are hunkering down and expecting the worst.  For regions already sodden with the heavy rain of two weeks ago, more heavy rain could spell disaster.

Red warnings for gale-force winds and torrential rain have been issued for the top of the North Island and the Coromandel Peninsular, but it appears all the Island will be impacted by strong winds.

For us here in Hamilton things are not currently looking too bad.  We missed the worst of the last storm, and so far we only have an orange warning for strong winds over the next couple of days.

Today we have overcast skies and the wind is steadily rising.  There has been a little bit of rain at our place but nothing worth noticing, although that is meant to change in the next hour or so as we head into the afternoon.

I don’t normally make soup in summer (in seems wrong somehow), but this morning it felt like a great idea.  It was!

Son and I enjoyed our hearty pottage soup for lunch – it warmed the cockles of our heart, it did (what a funny saying that is).

I call this soup pottage because it doesn’t have a set recipe.  It is a sort of chuck-in-whatever-is-around type of soup.  In this case it was a shin bone, carrot, onion, leek, celery, pearl barley, mung beans, yellow mustard seeds, seasoned with turmeric, salt, and pepper, and boiled up for a couple of hours in some water.

Very yummy 😊

Margaret.