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Moroccan Roasted Sweet Potato Soup

Well, I'm back making soup from The Soup Book . Today's recipe was for Moroccan roasted sweet potato soup. The ingredients include sweet potatoes, shallots, garlic, carrot, honey and harissa. Later on I'll be adding yoghurt and lemon juice and serving it with pitta bread. I started it off just after 11 o'clock this morning while my cleaner was here. She hadn't seen sweet potatoes before so I told her what little I thought I knew about them, that they were also called yams and originated in Central America. On checking with Wikipedia just now (yes, I know it's not a totally reliable source) I find I was wrong, that there is a difference between yams (Dioscorea batatas ) and sweet potatoes ( Ipomoea batatas ), the former originating in Africa and Asia, the latter orange-fleshed variety in South America. Apparently they're not even related. Back to the soup. I had to prepare the vegetable, mix the harissa with olive oil, then having coated the vegetables with

Funny Honey

Funny Honey Just a very quick post today. We're back from Austria. In a supermarket we saw jars of pink and green honey! We didn't go close enough to find out what was in them. Also in Austria I tried out different soups - Erbsensuppe mit Wurstl (lentil soup with sausage), tomato, potato, broccoli, etc. All tasty, but definitely not home made! Colony - Update MH tells me that Colony (www.colonymovie.com; see my blog of 25th January) may have won an award recently. I haven't been able to confirm as yet but here are a couple of links to articles about the documentary and colony collapse disorder - Suite 101 Film Ireland

Soup and Celebrities

Apologies to my readers, but there'll be no soup this week or the next as the spouse, the younger offspring and I are heading away. The spouse has suggested some gadget or other that will enable to see how many people are reading this blog. I know that at least one other person is - MH - otherwise I might not have bothered writing anything before we go. My older offspring is staying at home and last night left out a list of ingredients for a low-fat seafood chowder he wants to make while we're away. I must check The Soup Book and see what recipes there are for seafood chowder. I love seafood chowder and if I see it on a menu anywhere I will try it out. It's never the same in terms of ingredients, thickness, added vegetables, seasoning, etc, so I always think of eating seafood chowder in different locations as a part of a big seafood chowder adventure. I've eaten it in Dublin restaurants, in pubs beside fishing ports in Co Donegal and Co Clare, further in land ... Why d

Soup Break

February won't see Minnie busy making soup. This weekend I'm too tired, having been away last Monday and then baking for the older offspring's party a couple of evenings. Next weekend the spouse, younger offspring and I are heading away for a week so no soup for a while. A very kind acquaintance has sent me a magazine about soup. It's called Bowled Over . Bees The only bee theme items I thought of this week were the film Bee Movie and a line from The Bear Necessities - "Those bees are buzzing in the tree. They're making honey just for me." Bee Movie (www.beemovie.com) - I can remember nothing about it except that Jerry Seinfeld did the voice of the main character. Here's another bee connection. My sister's partner's father is a bee producer in England - I've had a jar. Very nice. Also, I think one of my aunts is involved in honey production. That's it for the next couple of weeks. I'll look out for soups and honey when I'm a