Posie’s Place

Sorry for the absence dear readers but as you can tell from my last post all those weeks ago we’ve been really busy here since Matthew arrived!

Stewart my darling husband has been taking care of mealtimes as I take care of Matthew’s bedtime routine.

I’ve been breaking myself in gently back into the way of cooking and so last weekend I made a huge pot of chilli. The weather today was really hot and we decided to go for a picnic so when we got home we weren’t in the mood for anything too heavy and so after trawling through the cupboards I came up with this quick and healthy snack.

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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!

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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…

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Finally gotten off my backside and back into the kitchen!!

Today Stewart and I went into the city and visited the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market). I just love this time of year, Basel is so beautiful!! We enjoyed some absolutely excellent rösti at a little bistro at the market mine with cheese, ham and onion and Stewart enjoyed his with Bratwurst and onion gravy! When we got home I got on with the task of finishing off making a pot of soup which I began cooking last night based on my grandmothers recipe.

Check back later for the simple but yummy recipe and some pictures!

UPDATE: Technical issues are hampering my posts. I’m currently waiting for my new laptop to arrive as my old one died a few weeks ago, it’s due for the end of the week so until then dear readers please accept my apologies. I will upload my recipe and pictures soon.

Just in case you missed my blog swap posting over at Meeta’s place here is the recipe I posted.

Since the whole of Europe has been sweltering under a heatwave for the past couple of weeks, the theme for the Monthly Mingle is very appropriately “Beat The Heat”, in addition we decided to use this theme for our blog swap.

I got my thinking cap on and and tried to identify which ingredients really screamed summer sun to me. I didn’t have far to look for inspiration. My tomato plants on the balcony are in full bloom and within the next couple of weeks I will have a glut of tomatoes on my hands. What can be more summery than tomatoes?

So now I had my main ingredient in mind, what would help “Beat The Heat” ?

Gazpacho!! Delicious chilled soup of tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, here goes..

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I’m getting really excited as my next set of visitors arrive on Monday, my aunt, cousin and the two girls have never been over to Switzerland before!! I have a few last minute preparations to take care of but I’m pretty much organized.

I thought I would have a nice healthy salad for lunch since the weather is still very warm.

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I finished work early today and spent this afternoon running about crazy. I ended up knackered and wasn’t really in the mood for cooking something from scratch and so I decided to make the sesame prawns which I bought from Co-Op yesterday. I served them with lemon, aioli and some tomato, chilli and red pepper salsa. They were really juicy!

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Regular readers will know that yesterday Meeta and I over at What’s for Lunch Honey? held our first Blog Swap.

Just in case you missed my recipe here it is:

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The weather had been decidedly summery all week (not that I’ve seen much of it stuck in bed) so I thought I would make a nice big salad for dinner tonight with all my favourite ingredients. My flu is getting a little better every day so I hope the good weather will continue so I can enjoy a couple of days of sunshine before I’m off to Belgium on Wednesday.

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The past two weekend’s we’ve had beautiful sunshine and temperatures of 24°C. Today it’s freezing cold and we had snow!! I long for this winter to finally end but in the mean time there is nothing left to do but make chicken soup as some small comfort for the soul…

This recipe is very simple and very tasty.

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