same soup, different year?
i am not really a religious person, but being raised roman-catholic, ash wednesday marks the beginning of lent and i have always followed the rule to not eat meat on that day (plus i don't eat meat on good friday). a meat-less diet is not a sacrifice for me and so i decided to not smoke today. i am not a confirmed smoker, but damn, it hurts to not have my cigarette with my coffee. but you are right, i definitely should skip this nasty habit for good. i smoked my first cigarette when i was 25 - seriously: how stupid do you have to be to make it through your teenage years without a single drag and start in your late 20ies? i have been an occasional smoker for the first few years only smoking on weekends, but somehow i ended up on a pack every day. i quit every once in a while (haven't smoked for 4 month in 2005), but somehow i don't seem to be able to stop at the moment ... i desperately need a challenge to distract me from the nicotine ...
last year i challenged myself during the 40 days of lent to cook a different soup every day. yeah, i failed with flying colours ...
soups have always been a favorite of mine, and while i often cook soups somehow i rarely blog about them. so i will renew my soup vow this year and once again try to cook a different soup every day during lent. i tried some rather interesting recipes last year and most of them really where keepers.
do i think that i am up to the challenge this year?
will i be able to really come up with 40 blog posts of soups?
i don't know yet.
we'll see.
i certainly will try harder this year.
recipe # 1: savoy cabbage and anchovy soup
about 300 g savoy cabbage (one small cabbage)
1 small onion
500 ml water (take vegetable stock if you like)
1 tbsp vegetable oil
2 table spoons of crème fraîche (i prefer lean rama cremefine)
salt
pepper
nutmeg
1 tbsp cress
a few anchovismakes about 750 ml of soup
- cut a savoy cabbage in quarters and remove the stalk
- roughly cut into fairly large stripes (about 3-4 cm)
clean them if necessary (rinsing should be fine)- dice the onion
- in a pot, heat the oil and stew the onion and the cabbage for a little while
- chop up two or three anchovis and add them to the cabbage
- remove some of the cabbage stripes for garnish and add the water
- bring to a boil, reduce heat and let simmer for about 15 minutes
- mix it all with a hand-held blender until smooth
- fold in crème fraîche
- season to taste with salt, pepper and nutmeg - easy on the salt, the anchovies usually are very salty!
- pour in a soup bowl and garnish with cabbage stripes, cress and another anchovi if you like
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I wish I could give up meat for 40days. I went on a detox once and had to exclude meat from my diet for a wk. Omg that was hard! LOL.
Good luck with your soup challenge! :)
OK - you win on the animated gif after I copied your blinking soup the other week.
As this one has 16 slides I presume it was a video clip converted to a gif? What software did you use to do this?
trig, i am just re-copying you! when i saw your animation the other day i figured i have to make some more of those cool gif's. my camera has a "multiburst - mode" where it packs 16 consecutive pictures into one 1280x960 image ... i then slice them up and arrange them in adobe image ready :) - and that's the whole trick, trig!
oh yes, and i bet your trainee-chef skills will always trump "staring at the tiny monitor of my camera to get a cool angle and being so caught up in things that i accidentally cut right through my long fingernail"
so you definitely win, chef!
With that knife I'm surprised you didn't cut your entire finger off. I must try the video burst trick.
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