I bought a small bag of carrots this afternoon. The reason for this is because I saw a recipe in 'Cook with Jamie' called sticky saucepan carrots, I usually don't have carrots in the fridge becaue they go bad. Carrots are not one of the veggies that I keep for some reason.
Reading his recipe, I thought it would be a good idea to make these. Then I thought soup. Looked up 101 cookbooks site and typed in carrots and found this recipe for carrot soup - I decided to make soup for the second time in my life (first one doesn't count because I fell asleep and burnt the soup).
I took stock of what I had in the fridge-
some chicken stock ( I will use the brovil and water as I didn't make any real chicken stock)
Long green peppers (not sure what kind)
challots
baby cherry tomatos
onion
chopped parsley (from the taboule that I made and pre chopped)
okra (which I absolutly love)
carrots (of course)
mushrooms chopped small (in my case, i mushed them by accident)
some herbs from my pantry (dill, chilantro)
a large handfull and 1/2 of red lentils
2 slices of bacon
garlic
lemon juice
and olive oil
first saute the onions with olive oil, until translucent, add garlic, bacon (chopped)
chop up your carrots into small chunks, cut okra- add lemon juice,
throw in your 4 cups of broth, add carrots, okra, parsley, long green peppers mushrooms, spices, tomatos, challots and let boil for 10 minutes, then bring temp down to simmer
it's a free for all. just go with it. add salt and pepper to taste.
I forgot the dill- oh well you could always add it later.
I'll post the photos once I clean the conter top and get the steps started.
I'm also not sure if I could freeze this soup to bring to dad. He hasn't been feeling well so hopefully he'll like my carrot soup.
