RECIPES

Sunday 12 February 2023

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.

 

12 comments:

  1. The soup looks good. Good luck with the cyclone. I hope you don’t get any damage, Margaret.

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  2. We get no news of your weather over here so we did not know anything was even going on. Stay safe over there!

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  3. That soup looks and sounds delicious. Turned cold here -.18 feels like 16 according to my phone.

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  4. It sounds very yummy and looks great.
    I hope you don’t get too much more rain. Stay safe

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  5. That soup recipe is "Fridge Soup" in our house! A shin bone is a very superior addition, definitely posh!. In winter I'll pick up a bacon hock if I see one on special. I'm hoping the cyclone will largely miss us in Wellington, and we're sheltered from the Southerly so ought to be OK. Those poor Auckland's about to be deluged a second time, it must be heartbreaking for them. And so scary.

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  6. Hope your weather doesn't get any worse. Your soup sounds wonderful, warming the cockles of your heart. Another strange expression as you say

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  7. I hope the weather doesn't cause too much destruction. The soup looked very good! It's a great way to avoid wasting food.

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  8. Soup looks delicious and sounds like the perfect meal while waiting for a storm to pass. Hope it doesn't get too bad where you are.

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  9. Funny old weather you are having. F made (cold) gazpacho soup in hot weather in Greece. Her Spanish friend insisted it should have water melon in it and that does indeed make it into a wonderful hot weather soup.

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  10. Sounds perfect for this cool, wet and wild day Margaret - we are getting some strong winds here, along with the driving rain
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  11. If having been made with no set recipe makes a soup a "Pottage" then I think all mine are just that. We enjoy soup in all seasons and find it an easy way to eat our vegetables. I hope the nasty weather doesn't cause too much damage. It sounds a bit ominous. Stay safe. Granny Marigold

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  12. Sad with the weather everywhere. Too warm for the season we got. And if unlucky a crappy summer...
    Your soup sounds great :-)
    Ingo always wants me to write down what I do. Nope ;-)

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