A Scot Living in Switzerland Writing About Food and Life in General
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I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!!With all the madness at Heathrow we have changed our flights to avoid the fog, here’s hoping we make it to Scotland on Christmas Eve!
Best wishes
Pamela
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Just thought I would write a brief post to update those of you who have mailed me asking about the baby. All is going well with my pregnancy, my baby bump is now rather large and I’m ever increasingly convinced that this little baby inside my belly will grow up to be an olympic kickboxing champion!
I didn’t think I would be able to feel “proper” kicks yet but since the end of last week the kicks are getting stronger and stronger. Now once or twice every day there is a really big kick which is easily detectable if you have your hand pressed onto my lower belly. So far when Stewart has tried to feel these kicks everything goes quiet but as soon as he walks off the baby starts moving around like mad..
Thursday seemed to be a VERY active day but I think the baby could sense that I was rather stressed. After work I went to IKEA with Kate and so didn’t get home till almost 8pm, I was absolutely knackered and my feet were aching. I got home and instantly got into my PJ’s and sat down to relax. Within 15 minutes of me being home Tasha (my beautiful rather overweight white kitty) started vomiting. This was no hairball as it lasted for 1 1/2 hours.
Although the weather isn’t very seasonal at the moment I still find myself craving warming, comforting soups.
When I lived in the UK I really loved the range of fresh and seasonal soups from The New Covent Garden Soup Company and was delighted when I found out that you could buy a couple of cookbooks with some of their recipes. This recipe is taken from The New Covent Garden Soup Company’s Book of Soups - New, Old & Odd Recipes.
This was the first time I have tried this recipe and I was pleasantly surprised, I can really recommend the Covant Garden book since I have yet to try any of the recipes in this book and be disappointed. I have made some minor modifications.
Give this great soup a try and let me know what you think, both Stewart and I thought it was fantastic!
My new laptop is here at last so now my technical difficulties have been overcome I thought it was about time I finally posted my gran’s soup recipe which I spoke of in my last post.
As usual when I make soup I made enough to feed an army but it won’t go to waste as I froze it in batches, this will come in really handy as the winter progresses.
So enough babbling… on to the recipe…
