i’ve been very busy recently, we had a mammoth Halloween weekend at Gunby Hall last weekend where we all dressed up as ghost characters of the Hall’s previous inhabitants and essentially spent 48hrs shouting, in scary make-up… Christmas is coming and is looking to be one of our busiest periods so it’s non-stop… i’ve barely had time for any life of my own let alone visit a supermarket or think about cooking fabulous stuff in the kitchen… i’m regularly going without breakfast and lunch and then, in a starving mad dash around the kitchen, stuffing all kinds of crap into my mouth… for lunch today I had a mini bag of Haribo and 6 apples…
i’m also off to Edinburgh on Sunday for 3 days of work, so forgive me if I go off piste for a day or two!
… so last night when I finally got home I was desperate for some decent grub which included nice, healthy vegetables… and I literally opened the fridge and cupboard, pulled out the first things that caught my eye and bunged it into a pot… and surprisingly good it was too!
chunky vegetable soup with chickpeas
1 large onion – finely chopped
2 medium leeks – finely chopped
1 large carrot – chopped
2 medium potatoes – chopped
2 medium vine tomatoes -chopped
1 tin of chickpeas
1 cup of frozen peas
2 pints of good vegetable stock
rosemary
– in a large pan, saute the onions and leeks in plenty of butter and olive oil and let them sweat for 5 mins, add some rosemary
– add the carrots and potatoes and let them sweat for a further 5 mins or until soft
– tip in the chickpeas and the tomatoes and stir it all around, then pour on the stock, cover and simmer gently for at least 20 mins.
– add the peas and then let it cool and sit for a while (i think the cooling/sitting process really lets the flavours mingle)
– serve with a grating of strong cheese
eat and of course, enjoy!
Woo hoo – you'll be in Edinburgh soon … and I've had a brain wave about tea and cake too but I shall email you about that.
Lovely looking soup!
Your soup looks really good and tasty – I love home-made soup – and great minds think alike…..!!
Yum! I need to do this, too.
Aw wish I could pop to Edinburgh to meet you but I will also be working 🙁 Lovely soup. Haribo Sour Monsters featured in my diet this week – a Halloween gift from someone I work with!
Enjoy your trip to Scotland, hope they don't work you too hard.
Sounds like you're very busy indeed! All the more important to look after yourself with nourishing soups like this one.
Lovely. This is perfect “Bonfire” food!
Sounds lovely and warming. Have a good weekend 🙂
i do a lot of random kitchen raids too haha! this looks yummy, not to mention healthy.
looks and sounds perfect!!! woo hoo Edinburgh!! the weather promises to be nice…but a wee bit chilly!! check out Bon Papillon on Howe street if you get a chance for cake xx
What a great job! I'd love to go about scaring people!
Your soup sounds lovely-nourishing and warming.
Oh Dom – have a wonderful meet-up with Chele, you lucky ducks!!! When are you coming to Dublin??
Funny how you said you felt desperate for a healthy meal – my veg phobic son is just back from a language exchange to Austria, he told me that he had been dreaming about a huge bowl of my vegetable soup (the stuff I normally have to bully him into eating!!!). The body is a wonderful machine!!
This looks fab! No longer will I think of the flavourless 'Heinz' tinned variety when I hear the words vegetable soup – this one deserves a try, I'm sure!