When Mirror Online asked if I had any ideas for articles based on the colder weather, I wrote about cheap and cheerful winter warming soups. I think soup is a fantastic option when the temperature plummets and the nights draw in – comforting, filling, easy to cook and virtuous if you pack in the veg.
You can read the finished article here and even vote on your favourite.
(This is the full link if needed: http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/4-winter-warming-soups-you-6735773 )
I chose three soups that I make regularly, carrot & coriander, bacon & lentil and butternut squash & pepper, then added a super speedy version of minestrone as a filling option packed with pasta and beans.
I ended up having to cook all of them in the days before writing the article, to double check the quantities and hence the price per bowl.
Cooking different soups in quick succession led to the following revelations:
– Perhaps unsurprisingly, you end up eating a lot of the damn stuff. Sample conversations in our household that week: Day 1 – “What’s for dinner tonight?” “Soup”. Day 2 – “What’s for dinner today”? “Soup. Again. But this time you have a choice of two.” Day 3 – “Any plans for dinner?” “But yes. Remember those soups you’ve eaten for the last two days? You can have either of those, because there’s still some left over. Plus there’s now even more choice, with a THIRD exciting soup.”
Day 4: “Anything I should take in to work as a packed lunch?” “Three guesses…” etc etc
– Trying to multitask cooking soup first thing in the morning while getting the children ready for school was not my best plan. Think the highlight was hurling a tin of chopped tomatoes into a sieve, rather than the tin of beans I meant to rinse, and watching most of the tomato juice disappear down the sink. Sigh. Good thing I had a spare tin.
– Pretty much all my favourite soups are orange. There was I thinking the recipes were quite varied, but turns out carrots, butternut squash, red peppers and red lentils all end up pretty much the same colour when cooked. Normally, this is not a problem, because I’m more interested in eating them than looking at them. However, faced with the prospect of taking photos to illustrate an article, it became more of an issue. I only realised half way through, and had to resort to using different backgrounds and chucking chopped coriander on top to make them look vaguely different.
– My food photography leaves something to be desired. See the lovely picture of carrot and coriander soup at the top of the article, with elegant coriander leaves on top, artistic plate underneath and bone handled cutlery? Nothing to do with me. You see the photo lower down, the one that’s a bit out of focus, with an unappetising bunch of chopped greenery on top? That would be mine. It did taste good though, honestly.
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| Glamorous stunt soup, selected by the Mirror. |
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| My soup, untouched by the hand of food stylists (or in fact style). |
So who likes soup when the weather turns wintery? And which soups are your favourites?
I do like soup, but I'm far too lazy to make it myself. I buy a tin of Amy's or good old trusty Heinz. :O) Yours looks rather lovely, even if it hadn't been touched up by food stylists!
I haven't tried bacon in lentil soup before- I must try it very soon!
The bacon does add a certain something, and helped persuade my husband to brave lentil soup.
Nice article, I'm going to try the storecupboard minestrone soup!
I like your photo, good nourishing soup and just like I would have in my dish any day of the week. The top 'stunt' shot is all style over substance, well until you fish out the giant leaves and actually get down to eating the brightly coloured loveliness anyway.
I have a big block of 'End of Summer' soup thawing out on top of the Aga as I type. It was made out of all the odds and sods I found as I worked my way around the veggie beds tidying them ready for the Winter, I could never replicate it exactly, like most of my homemade soups and the weekly 'Fridge Soup', but it's delicious, so it's a good job I managed to make three litres of the stuff 🙂
We love soup. Carrot and tomato and lentil is our favourite but it is closely rivalled by carrot and coriander. And leek and potato. If I'm being honest the most frequently cooked soup is fridge soup : )
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