White Soup

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:01 pm

Here you go Maz - a nice easy peasey soup which is tasty, quick and easy.

500gm potato
1 onion
1/2 bunch celery
1 parsnip
1 turnip

Peel all vegetables as required and chop up roughly (no that doesn't mean bashing them on the chopping board, it just means it doesn't matter about size or shape or whatever)
Put a couple of tablespoons of butter or oil into a large saucepan and once hot, toss in all the veggies and stir until they are steaming
Add 2 level teaspoons of sugar and a little salt (about 1/2 teaspoon - more if you don't mind salt. I prefer the less salt - you can always add it later if required but you can't remove it) and around 1.5 litres (3 pints) of water.
Boil gently for about 1 hour
Pour the soup through a colander and return stock to the saucepan (please be careful not to drain the stock down the sink - done that before today - lol)
Now supposedly at this stage you should puree the veggies either through a food processor or push through a sieve. I find if you just hit them with the potato masher its quite OK or you can leave things as is.
Return the mashed veggies to the stock in the saucepan
Add about 500ml (1 pint) of milk to the soup and bring back to simmering point
Mix 2 level tablespoons of plain flour with a little water until it is a smooth paste
Stir the plain flour paste slowly through the soup and bring back to the boil
Cook about 1-2 minutes
Season with white pepper and a bit of salt if required.
Serve with freshly chopped chives and small croutons.

Thats the correct method. Me, I just boil the veggies up in a bit of good quality stock - smash the veggies once cooked with a potato masher without separating the liquid and the veggies - top up with a bit of milk and eat with toast.

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:21 pm

Some things make me laugh - like "boil gently" isnt that just simmering - or am I missing the point

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:23 pm

The point is, get a GF and make her cook, nuff said

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:28 pm

If I cant cook better than my partner there is something wrong. Its the choice to cook that counts

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:30 pm

Well in a way yes Mazia

Simmering - the liquid is just barely at boiling point with a few small bubbles breaking the surface occassionally
Boil Gently - the liquid is boiling but a little more than a simmer and the bubbles are larger
Boil - the liquid is bubbling away quite rapidly and the bubbles are larger again
Full Boil - basically as hot as you can get it - the bubbles will burst to the surface and the liquid will get a real rolling motion to it

Now don't make me explain toffee making with terms such as:
Soft Ball
Hard Ball
Soft Crack
Hard Crack

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:31 pm

Toasted ham and cheese for teh win everytime.
Hmm maybe except for one of De'annas steaks

Hey thats an even better suggestion, get someone elses GF to cook, then you don't have to put up with all that female hormone crap

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:33 pm

/runs away from the cooking channel.

That recipy is almost easy enough for me to do miru - might substitute the normal potatos for sweet potatos cause I have a sweet tooth

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:33 pm

Granted it will no longer be "white" but then again who cares cooking is about taste

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:36 pm

Not a problem Maz - just don't add the extra sugar - and I add a carrot to mine too. I also don't use plain water but a good vegetable stock

Really what you have there is a basic soup recipe and you can pretty much add anything you want to it within reason. Hell, you can even toss a few bacon bones in and simmer them for about 30 minutes then toss in the veggies if you want

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:38 pm

bugger cooking I have a freezer full of Leonards

Pre-designed meals for the win.

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:40 pm

Slap him for that one mum

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:45 pm

Gives me more EQ time to group with your sorry ass Tookie

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:47 pm

WTF is Leonards?

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:51 pm

Premade chicken based products - they make them on the day you go shopping - you gather them up stick them in the freezer defrost on the day and cook.

Mini chicken roasts,
Kiev
Shish Kebabs
Curry mix
Stirfry mix
Mignions
herbed crumed chicken snitzil
Flavoures chicken sausages
Chicken Meatloaf
etc etc etc

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 2:54 pm

Sounds nice for an 'emergency' meal. Would be ok with a few veggies and /or a salad

zappity · Post by **zappity** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 3:04 pm

hehe thai curries are my staple food. using paste bought in asian grocery or sometimes coles has ok ones. it takes at most 10 to 15 mins cooking heh and i get 2 meals for about $5.

cut chicken/beef/whatever
put rice in cooker and press "on"
put some paste in pan
put meat in pan
stir fry for like 30 sec
pour in can of coconut milk/cream and stir
leave to simmer 5 min while rice finishes
enjoy

really no reason to reduce to frozen meals =p

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 3:13 pm

Ummm - where's the veggies?

zappity · Post by **zappity** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 3:16 pm

do i look like a rabbit?

hehe yeah put in eggplant sometimes for red or capsicum for green etc but often too lazy

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 3:21 pm

You do know that places like Woolworth's, Coles, Bi-Lo have prepared packets of stir fry vegetables which are reasonably OK?

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 3:32 pm

Yeh I have 5 packets of them in the freezer. I often just resort to a couple of lettus leaves, some cheery tomatos, snow peas / sugar peas / carrot and some sprouts.

I generally feel happier to have eaten them.

Miruwin · Post by **Miruwin** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 4:00 pm

No Mazia, you can buy packets of fresh vegetables for stir fry ready prepared in the fresh vegetable section of the supermarket

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 4:05 pm

Do as mum tell you, or you'll be grounded for a week

Mazia · Post by **Mazia** » Mon 01 Aug, 2005 4:42 pm

Yes buy vegetables stick them in freezer /nods sagely. Anything that goes in my vegetable continer in a bag gets transplanted into the bin about 2 weeks later through disuse.

Kysumu · Post by **Kysumu** » Tue 02 Aug, 2005 8:32 am

I hear Mica can 'whip' up a wicked white sauce .. goes well with his meat Maz said ..

White Soup indeed .. I loves ya mum but this soup sounds disgusting .. I can't think of anything more 1900s aussie .. well what have we got .. well no meat but a shitload of Potatos, Turnips, Parsnips and Celery .. lets boil the fuck out of them .. the only thing you have mentioned with an ounce of favour is the onion and then you boil that out to

.. I am sure you could take this 'soup' and use it as starch for your ironing .. no wonder you add sugar to this

Now that I have said my piece how about you break into some Muffins Miru .. I would like some of Miru's Muffins

Turook · Post by **Turook** » Tue 02 Aug, 2005 9:02 am

You are a dirty dirty boy. /smack

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