Blog soup!

I didn't originally intend to be adding a new post to my blog today but this morning E was out in the sunshine, digging over some of our small veg plot in preparation for this year's planting, when he discovered that we still had some root veg left. Last October it was the remains of what we'd grown in the summer, but was very small, and so we left it............and it had continued to grow over the winter without being eaten by bugs or suffering from frost.

Admittedly some of it was a little worse for wear but after removing roots and leaves etc we found we had quite a reasonable amount of organic carrots and beetroot! My intial thought was to roast some of it in the oven  but then I had a the better idea of making vegetable soup.

I already had some celery so added that with a couple of onions, a few whole cloves of garlic (so that it was sweet rather than overpowering) and a teacup of red lentils.

After first frying the onions in olive oil........

.....I then added the chopped beetroot and carrots......

........followed by the celery and the lentils.

Then, after adding a handful of dried herbs, 3 tspns of vegetable bouillon and approx 2 pts of water........

.....I put the lid on and left it to simmer quietly for an hour.

Then the decision, to blitz or not to blitz?

I blitzed!

The taste was excellent (even if I do say so myself!!!!) so we decided to have it for our Sunday dinner with some wholemeal bread rolls that E made yesterday.

There was still plenty left so some will be travelling to work with me for lunch tomorrow and the rest will go in the freezer.

Thank you winter veg!! :)