Useless discovery...?
Tuesday, January 28th, 2003 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanYou, my only but attentive reader, will be aware that for reasons too onerous to repeat, I have developed an interest in vegetable soup.
And I have made a discovery of culinary import.
Basically, it is thus.
The making of soup is, once past the choppin' an' scrunching of the veggies stage, and well past the 'it needs another bat wing' stage, is largely just a case of boiling it until it screams for mercy. At this point you put it out its misery by applying the liquidizer.
Anyway, my discovery is this.
If, whilst you are boiling up your soup, you get distracted by say, listening to music, drinking coffee and faffing around on the Pee See, there is a reasonable chance that you might - how shall I put this - accidentally neglect the actual process of turning solids into liquids. Now, if realisation dawns while there is still enough liquid to stop it burning, but too little to call it soup, you can use the liquidizer to turn it into a paste.
This paste will rehydrate when you add boiling water and stir, which is lucky.
But more interestingly, if you have, say, this sudden urge to make toast and realise that you have sod all to put on it, you can add this veggie gloop and re-toast it. Sprinkle a bit of parmesan on it and voila!
Wasted toast.
Marvellous.
And I have made a discovery of culinary import.
Basically, it is thus.
The making of soup is, once past the choppin' an' scrunching of the veggies stage, and well past the 'it needs another bat wing' stage, is largely just a case of boiling it until it screams for mercy. At this point you put it out its misery by applying the liquidizer.
Anyway, my discovery is this.
If, whilst you are boiling up your soup, you get distracted by say, listening to music, drinking coffee and faffing around on the Pee See, there is a reasonable chance that you might - how shall I put this - accidentally neglect the actual process of turning solids into liquids. Now, if realisation dawns while there is still enough liquid to stop it burning, but too little to call it soup, you can use the liquidizer to turn it into a paste.
This paste will rehydrate when you add boiling water and stir, which is lucky.
But more interestingly, if you have, say, this sudden urge to make toast and realise that you have sod all to put on it, you can add this veggie gloop and re-toast it. Sprinkle a bit of parmesan on it and voila!
Wasted toast.
Marvellous.
