Planet Veggie

I invented a game on Twitter a few months ago called Guess the Soup. It’s very easy to play. All you have to do is, um, guess the soup I’m making that day (or the soup someone else is making). Today, Cassie started a new round of Guess the Soup. After I guessed incorrectly with [...]

Tideford Organics aren’t a wholly vegetarian company, but out of their six varieties of soups, five are vegetarian and four are vegan. They also produce a range of vegetarian sauces, puddings and jellies. I tried five of their soups and they were all fresh and delicious (even the carrot and coriander one, which isn’t a [...]

Today’s soup was practically free, as it was made using tomatoes, chilli and a potato grown in the garden. Tomato and chilli soup (serves 4) 3 lbs tomatoes, chopped 1 red chilli, chopped 1 onion, chopped 1 potato, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, crushed 1 litre vegetable stock 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp tomato [...]

As courgettes are in season at the moment, I’ve been having courgette soup for lunch every day for the past two weeks made with yellow courgettes from the greenhouse, and green courgettes from Riverford. This week, the soup has been made from our home grown yellow ones. I’d never even heard of a yellow courgette [...]

I know it’s not really the done thing to blow your own trumpet, but I really do think I make the best soup in the world. I certainly make better soup than Tesco’s “3 tins of additive filled tins of flavoured water for £1.50”, and so after making this weeks soup, I was very glad I [...]

I think I’ve made the perfect soup. Or is it just that you can’t go wrong if you add chilli and cheese to everything? Either way, this soup was amazing. No exact quantities, it was a chuck it in the pan with some stock and see what happens kind of soup.  Spicy potato and cabbage [...]

Last week I was ill. Not very ill, but ill enough that I wouldn’t have gone to work, had I a job to go to in the first place. So, because I was ill, I should have been eating healthy meals but because I was ill, I couldn’t be bothered to make any and so [...]

I must have gone off salad as, although there’s been loads of salady type stuff in the fridge, all last week I’ve ignored this and made myself cheese and coleslaw sandwiches instead. That’s not quite in keeping with the eat healthy lunches regime I usually have. So I decided to go back to the make [...]

Vegan Planet is a cookbook I’ve had for years but only made one recipe from; a recipe I didn’t really like but after recently reading good reviews about it on amazon, I thought I’d give it another go.  Rather than risk giving The Meat Eater something that would downgrade me from domestic goddess to domestic [...]

A cookbook I haven’t used for a while is Vegetarian Express by Rose Elliot so I had a flick through it yesterday looking for inspiration for this week’s soup and came across a recipe for spinach and potato soup. It was very nice. And very green.   Ingredients (serves 5) 1 small onion, chopped 400g [...]