Some people have a favourite season. I have favourite things about each season. Winter is the time to bunker down, enjoy the creature comforts of home, and snuggle up with family, lovers and pets to read books and watch movies.
When it comes to food winter is about slow braises stews and curries, stewed fruits and porridge, crumbles tarts and pies, roasts and soups.
Soup, and here I mean the warm variety of soup, is magical. A bowl of soup can warm the soul, lift the spirits, ease a cold and settle the belly. They can be a quick fix or fill the house with delicious aromas whilst simmering away on a cold winter's day. They come in an array of viscosity, can be chunky or smooth and it's really a matter of personal taste. It can be a bespoke soup that you set out to make or, Saturday soup - the soup you make from the leftover vegies in the fridge to make way for the fresh ones (this used to occur on Saturdays when I had a "real job").
I have been revisiting some of the soups that were a regular winter feature in the kitchen of the Murray Street Hilton. Along with a beef & barley soup brew, pea & ham soup was a regular feature. And as if the food fashionistas were reading my mind, this old school soup started cropping up over town - in Gourmet Traveller, delicious., and BHG. It was a sign - it's time to make pea & ham soup.
When it comes to food winter is about slow braises stews and curries, stewed fruits and porridge, crumbles tarts and pies, roasts and soups.
Soup, and here I mean the warm variety of soup, is magical. A bowl of soup can warm the soul, lift the spirits, ease a cold and settle the belly. They can be a quick fix or fill the house with delicious aromas whilst simmering away on a cold winter's day. They come in an array of viscosity, can be chunky or smooth and it's really a matter of personal taste. It can be a bespoke soup that you set out to make or, Saturday soup - the soup you make from the leftover vegies in the fridge to make way for the fresh ones (this used to occur on Saturdays when I had a "real job").
I have been revisiting some of the soups that were a regular winter feature in the kitchen of the Murray Street Hilton. Along with a beef & barley soup brew, pea & ham soup was a regular feature. And as if the food fashionistas were reading my mind, this old school soup started cropping up over town - in Gourmet Traveller, delicious., and BHG. It was a sign - it's time to make pea & ham soup.
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