kicking things off

Before I forget to mention, another challenge that we face is that my new husband is vegetarian. At first it was hard to cater to him... but now I'm quite used to it and I enjoy cooking two meals at the same time, and more often than not I end up eating his more than mine!

Back to this posting...

Before we left for our wedding, I had a fridge with plenty leftovers. My mom had bought a thick cream. We had purchased 10 pence carrots, 5 pence chilli peppers, our neighbour had given us tomatoes, a 17 pence large bag of potatoes, onions and a basil plant for Christmas and we still had some things left.

I boiled the carrots and some potatoes (we still have some in the cupboard), sautéed the onions with some garlic. I roasted the peppers and tomatoes. Then I boiled some vegetable stock (Knorr) and added all the veggies. It boiled for 20 minutes before I added the cream. I then blended it together and froze. I made sure that the consistency was really thick, I wanted to add a bit more vegetable stock (fresh) when I thawed it to add a nicer flavour.

When we came back from 30• Africa into 3• England, a soup was just what we needed! I made fresh vegetable stock and added the thawed soup. Mixed with a whisk and served with pre-frozen 4pence bread.

Tabasco sauce was added to mine, but not to his.

I realise I will have to start taking photos! And I will.. when I get a bit more the hang of this.