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03:58 pm: Broccoli and pea soup, with strife
Soak about a cupful of dried split peas in boiling water.

Chop and fry three onions: when they're soft, add a chopped head of broccoli.

Add salt, dried basil and marjoram.

Listen to brother snarling at parents in background. Stir onions and broccoli over a strong heat till they're just beginning to brown.

Drain and add the soaked peas, then about 2 litres of water and a couple of veggie stock cubes, and a dash of Worcester sauce. Reflect that it isn't veggie and decide not to mention that, because of the lack of other spices available.

Simmer for about 10-20 minutes while brother attempts to pick fights with everyone at table.

Swirl the stick blender about in the soup till smooth, and serve with good bread and cheese. Calm ensues.



Tags: broccoli, family stuff, onions, recipe, soup

03:03 pm: Potage Bonne Lesbian
( Potage Bonne Lesbian )

Tags: my recipes, onions, slow cooker, soup

12:00 am: Recipe: Thai yellow curry with potatoes and onions
This is the dryest dish I've ever tried to cook in a slow cooker. Normally I make sure everything is covered with liquid, but this time, that seemed inappropriate. I figured I would do it during the evening instead of overnight, and stir it once in a while.

bibliofile recommended I try Thai yellow curry with potatoes and onions, and the various recipes I looked up for it suggested broccoli (I had a very large head of broccoli in the last organic_boxers) and carrots and coconut milk, too.

I chopped up about a couple of pounds of potatoes and a pound of carrots, half a pound of onions, and one very large head of broccoli. (I am lying slightly. I didn't think to weigh any of the veg before I started: it was about five medium potatoes, two enormous carrots and one smallish one, and three small onions.)

I mixed all the veg in my slow cooker, and added a single tin of low fat coconut milk (I bought a couple of tins as an experiment in Real Foods last year - I mean to try making tofu-pineapple curry with it sometime). I opened the tub of yellow Thai curry paste, and added a couple of heaped dessert-spoonfuls to the veg. Then I mixed it up thoroughly, turned the cooker on, and put the lid on. I shall keep stirring it until I go to bed tonight, over several hours, and then switch off the cooker and leave it to cool and the curry to settle, as it were, overnight.

Update: It turned out fine! I forgot that vegetables produce liquid of their own: I usually cook them with pulses which of course absorb liquid.

Tags: broccoli, my recipes, onions, slow cooker