Minnie's Soup Kitchen

Avgolemono I first mentioned avgolemono in my blog of 2nd January. The name had cropped up in the book I was reading at the time for my book group. For some reason, The Soup Book lists this recipe by Shaun Hill as "avgolemone" but internet searches seem to indicate that the correct spelling is "avgolemono." Anyway, the family feasted on a Thai take-away meal last night (MH met me while I was en route to the restaurant) and we fancied a lighter meal today. The ingredients of avgolemono are rice, well-flavoured chicken stock, eggs, the juice of a large lemon, seasoning and lemon wedges.A small amount of rice is cooked in the stock and gradually combined with the eggs and lemon juice. The spouse, older offspring and I sat down to our egg and lemon soup and were pleasantly surprised. "I'd go for that again," pronounced the spouse. "It's a summery soup." Shopping and Supping Earlier today the younger offspring and I were in town. I tr...

Chunky Turkey Soup Still on the theme of Christmas, today's soup (the forty-first since I began the project and the first of 2011) is Angela Nilsen 's chunky turkey soup. Another theme is thriftiness. In my blog entry of 19th December I mentioned the possibility of buying turkeys cheaply after Christmas and the spouse duly bought a turkey leg for €5! There is plenty of meat on it. He cooked it for our new year's day lunch party. I used some of the remaining meat for today's soup and I'll be using the bone, meat scraps and limp vegetables from the fridge to replenish my supply of stock. Good value or what! The Soup Book recipe for chunky turkey soup calls for onion, potato, carrots, leek, peas and turkey. Then it is served with hot garlic bread. In my prevailing mood of thriftiness, I used leftover bread to make croutons (crush a clove of garlic in olive oil, coat slices of French bread in the oil and "bake" in a hot oven for about fifteen minutes). My ...