The bread accompanies a warming bowl of pea and ham soup. Our local butcher does a mean ham hock – he has his own smokehouse out the back. The smokeyness the hock gives to the soup really lifts its flavour above any other soup I’ve made, making this my favourite soup.
The temperature has really dropped this week, and I’m thinking about getting an electric blanket for my bed. It’s time to make some more soup, particularly one of my favourites, pumpkin. This version I made last year had a little apple (from the batch I picked in Bilpin) to balance out the sweetness of the pumpkin. I think I might do the same this year.
It’s far from winter at the moment, but it is raining cats and dogs outside. Perfect soup weather, and a satisfying soup to make and eat is minestrone. For me it really consists of whatever vegetables I have at hand, plus pulses and pasta. For an indulgence you can add sausages, but the one below are simply the basics, brought together by beef stock and tomatoes. Yum.
Static and Silence 