Chicken and Vegetable Soup with Pasta Shells
Showing posts with label Soup Kitchen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Soup Kitchen. Show all posts
Tuesday 29th May 2012
With the winter weather here, it's time to start making soups! They freeze well and are great snacks inbetween meals.
Fennel & Chorizo Soup
Mushroom Soup
Wednesday 14th March 2012
Lunch
Asparagus Soup with a drizzle of Truffle Oil
Dinner
Spicy Okra with Rice
Wednesday 22nd February 2012
Sunday 30th October 2011
Summer Soup with Seafood and Risoni
Tuesday 14th June 2011
Roast Chicken with Cous Cous
Instant Ramen with shredded Poached Chicken
Mum had poached a whole chicken to make stock. I love the juicy chicken flesh when she cooks it this way. Especially the skin!
After dinner I popped over to Marissa's for a catchup over some coffee and baked goodies.
Tuesday 10th May 2011
Time for some comforting homecooking as the weather gets colder. Nice and easy meals to cook and great to eat in bed!
Chicken & Sweet Corn Soup
Hokkien Noodles with Sliced Fish Cake
Friday 6th May 2011
For a late afternoon snack at work today, I made myself a curried egg sandwich. I brought a boiled egg still in the shell, some mayonnaiseand curry powder. I peeled the egg and mashed it up (with a bit of difficulty as I was using a plastic fork) and added some mayonnaise, curry powder and a pinch of salt. Yum!I was watching an episode of Masterchef on Channel 10 and the contestants were faced with the challenge of cooking a dish that they could see themselves eating for the rest of their lives if they were stranded on a dessert island.
I knew immediately what dish would be my 'dessert island' dish.
You probably won't be surprised since I do post this dish up quite often. However, each time there is usually some variation to it. Sometimes I use chicken. Sometimes I use speck. Sometimes it's vegetarian. Sometimes I use a different pasta - risoni, mini shells, large shells.
It's such a versatile dish and full of wonderful flavours and textures. It's perfect for cold winter nights or when I'm feeling under the weather. I can eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner - all in the one day!
It's comfort food.
Love it.
Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Steamed Corn, gourmet Italian Baked Beans,
slivers of Brown Onion & Sardines in Hot Sauce
Oh yeah, I had onion and fish breath big time when I returned to work after my break! But a few mints took care of that. I love sardines! I would prefer a can of sardines in a salad over a can of tuna. Sardines are just much tastier and since I was young, I have always loved nibbling on the edible spine bones!
I bought some fresh artichokes when I was at the Malaga markets on the weekend. I've made soup using Jerusalem artichokes but not the Globe artichoke.I googled how to prepare the artichokes the other day and didn't have enough time since it is quite involved. So today I made sure to set aside a few hours!
I found this online tutorial on How to Trim an Artichoke very helpful. There are gorgeous photos and step by step instructinos. My artichoke looked a bit different to the ones pictured though but I managed ok.
I had four artichokes so I trimmed two of them and put them in the steamer while I prepared the remaining two to make soup.
Here is my artichoke heart after the fuzzy choke has been removed. Despite using wedges of fresh lemon to try to stop the discolouring, it just oxidised pretty much immediately after I made any cuts into it.
Creamy Artichoke Soup
For the soup I cooked some garlic, onion, leek and potatoes in a bit of butter. I added some Vegeta stock, a few pinches of thyme and two bay leaves. It didn't look like much after it had all cooked down, but after I blended it with my mixmaster, it looked much more appetizing.
Meanwhile, I enjoyed eating the fleshy parts off the petals with a glass of wine. As has been suggested online, I dipped the base of each petal into some butter and scraped the fleshy parts off with my teeth. Yum! When I got to the hearts, I sliced them up and added them to the soup.
So, my verdict with artichokes?
It's a lot of work so I wouldn't recommend them unless you've got some time on your hands to waste. But they do taste so good when you've spent the time to prepare them yourself!
Leggo's Spinach & Ricotta Agnolotti
in a rich Tomato Sauce with Basil
I couldn't go past buying a bag of this agnolotti when I saw it was reduced to only $2! I made a simple sauce using a can of crushed tomatoes, crushed garlic, diced onion, chopped fresh basil from the garden and cracked black pepper. Serve with some fresh grated pecorino, pour another glass of red and all set!
Friday 18th March 2011
I bought some chicken 'lovely legs' from the supermarket yesterday. They're basically just the drumstick piece but with the skin and lower part of the bone removed. They're great for casseroles but I would only buy them if they're on special because you can trim the skin off yourself.
Lunch
Chicken & Pasta Soup
with garlic, onion, celery, leek, carrots and rosemary.
Bowl food does not get better than this! I love to melt lots of grated pecorino into the soup. And lots of chillies - bring on the endorphins rush!
Supper
Hokkien Noodles with sliced Fish Cake & Vegetables
Chicken & Pasta Soup
with garlic, onion, celery, leek, carrots and rosemary.
Bowl food does not get better than this! I love to melt lots of grated pecorino into the soup. And lots of chillies - bring on the endorphins rush!
Hokkien Noodles with sliced Fish Cake & Vegetables
Monday 28th February 2011
For the last day of summer, nature decided to open up the skies and pour bucketloads of rain onto us. Our street flooded, it hailed and rainbows appeared in the sky.
I can't wait for winter! Cold nights snuggled up, eating hot steaming bowls of soup!
Thursday 30th December 2010
Snapper & Chorizo Risotto
Lobster with Garlic Chilli infused Butter
Chips and Tomato Salad
Mum's Shark Fin Soup
Mum and I picked the meat out of the crabs from dinner the other night and she used it in the soup. I love shark fin soup. Yes, I know that sharks are being hunted for this precious delicacy, but I happily admit that I love this soup. I don't have it often though. Mum only makes it once a year if I'm lucky.
Friday 3rd December 2010
It hasn't taken me long to infiltrate my new job with my love for eating. It helps that everyone at work loves to eat too. So, without too much effort, we have started what we hope will become a weekly event - we shall collect a small fee from everyone and either on Thursday or Friday each week, one of us will go and shop for a smorgasbord of food for us to all share.
Behold - our feast!
This was the quiche I made last night, which we all tucked into for morning tea. I was disappointed that the pastry was a bit undercooked on the base. I should have blind baked it a bit longer.
More of Ian's Harissa paste, fresh avocado and fresh sliced bread.
Rebecca brought in some Brie.
She was so eager, she didn't realise she was making her sandwich
on one of the plastic bags that the food arrived in!
I made two sandwiches. It took me several laps around the table to be able to get a bit of all the ingredients, much to everyone's amusement. On the left, avocado, brie, ham and duck terrine. On the right, harissa, prosciutto and sundried tomatoes.
For something sweet, we had some of Rebecca's lemon butter with fresh strawberries. This combination was divine! You get the tartness of the lemon butter with the sweetness of the very ripe strawberries. I must get her recipe to make this lemon butter when my lemons are ripe!
With our tummies full, we beamed at each other - it was an extremely successful lunch! Can't wait for next week!
Tonight I had Vernon and Victoria over for dinner. Vernon saw one of my blog posts and so he 'ordered' this for tonight. I was happy to oblige.
Entree
Asparagus Soup served with a Dinner Roll
Main Course
Scotch Fillet with a creamy Garlic, Chilli & Saffron sauce with Prawns
Steamed Asparagus spears and butter roasted Potatoes
Time for a coffee!
Behold - our feast!
This was the quiche I made last night, which we all tucked into for morning tea. I was disappointed that the pastry was a bit undercooked on the base. I should have blind baked it a bit longer. |  |
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on one of the plastic bags that the food arrived in!
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For something sweet, we had some of Rebecca's lemon butter with fresh strawberries. This combination was divine! You get the tartness of the lemon butter with the sweetness of the very ripe strawberries. I must get her recipe to make this lemon butter when my lemons are ripe!With our tummies full, we beamed at each other - it was an extremely successful lunch! Can't wait for next week!
Tonight I had Vernon and Victoria over for dinner. Vernon saw one of my blog posts and so he 'ordered' this for tonight. I was happy to oblige.
Asparagus Soup served with a Dinner Roll
Scotch Fillet with a creamy Garlic, Chilli & Saffron sauce with Prawns
Steamed Asparagus spears and butter roasted Potatoes
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