{"id":779,"date":"2009-05-02T15:51:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2009-05-25T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T11:22:22","slug":"nom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Nom!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve made this recipe<\/a> for “Irish Potato Soup with Bacon and Vegetables” before, and it was great, but the one I made last night possessed some serious nom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It all started with a R9.99 soup pack from the Fruit & Veg. For those not in the know, this is a styrofoam package containing one onion, one potato, two carrots, one leek, one turnip, one tomato, and a whole bunch of parsley and celery. I think they make quite a good profit on it, but… it’s convenient.<\/p>\n

Dragged out my recipe file, found this recipe, made it my way (I hate dirtying more than one pot, thence the sequence).<\/p>\n

Fry half a packet of bacon in a black pot until very crispy. And I mean very. Remove bacon.<\/p>\n

Fry one diced onion and one leek, cut lengthwise and sliced, in bacon fat. Add some white wine (I used italian bubbly, because it’s too sweet to drink and I didn’t want to waste it) to deglaze the pot. Add a heaped teaspoon “spicy” curry powder. Wait for wine to cook away, remove mix from pot.<\/p>\n

Fry about 8 potatoes, diced, two carrots, sliced, and one turnip, diced.<\/p>\n

Now this is where the magic started. Last Christmas, I brined a turkey in apple vinegar. This was not that great a success at the time, although the vinegary meat was damngood on sandwiches. I (as always) cooked stock using the leftover bits, and I still had about 500ml of this stock left over. That went into the soup.<\/p>\n

I also collect vegetable leftovers into a container, cook stock now and then. I used about 200ml of my last batch of vegetable stock.<\/p>\n

And then I just simmered all of this for around an hour, mushing some of it with a potato masher about three quarters through the process.<\/p>\n

When I tasted this it was a bit thin, so I added five drops of fish sauce (!) and some garlic salt.<\/p>\n

Then the onions went back in, I added 2\/3 of a container of cream (left over from a previous recipe) and of course the bacon went in when serving. Didn’t bother with the nutmeg or spring onions.<\/p>\n

Some serious nomming of soup and garlic ciabbatas (also from Fruit & Veg) ensued.<\/p>\n

Today, I’m poaching a chicken<\/a>… hafta use the left-over celery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve made this recipe for “Irish Potato Soup with Bacon and Vegetables” before, and it was great, but the one I made last night possessed some serious nom. It all started with a R9.99 soup pack from the Fruit & Veg. For those not in the know, this is a styrofoam package containing one onion, one potato, two carrots, one leek, one turnip, one tomato, and a whole bunch of parsley and celery. I think they make quite a good profit on it, but… it’s convenient. Dragged out my recipe file, found this recipe, made it my way (I hate...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood","tag-fooooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}